The industrialized world is a complex web of technology, cultures and politics, but today’s interconnected society does not include everyone. A handful of communities still exists completely outside of these limits. For example, the Sentinelese people who live on the north of Sentinel of the Indian Ocean are so famous that several outsiders have died while try to contact them—Hoste in demonstrably hyphensated reports About their overall hostility.
In the meantime, the Brazilian Fundação Nacional Dos Povos Indígenas (National Foundation of Indigenous peoples, or Funai) estimates about 100 non -connected indigenous groups still live deep in the Amazon -Regener forest. But on 12 February a man from one of those communities decided to meet his neighbors.
According to the Associated Pressthe young individual came from the rainforest near the rural village of Bela Rosa on the Purus River. Barefoot and dressed in a loincloth, the man seemed “calm” and healthy when he “waved two wooden sticks” while the locals approached him. Villagers believe that the man tried to indicate that he wanted fire, but they struggled with learning him how to use a lighter.
After receiving fish for dinner, Funai representatives arrived to guide him to the nearby Mamoriá Grande Ethnoenvironmental Protection -Basis of the Agency. A subsequent report Van Funai also confirmed members of the Madeira Purus Ethnoenvirconmental Protection Front (FPE) and local officials “provided the necessary care” for a medical team that would be expected to arrive on Friday. Moreover, one of the Three remaining members From the local Juma -Stame will soon try to try to establish communication with him.
When Gizmodo Comments, such a big response to a relatively small interaction is not overreaction. The Non -Profit Interests Group Survival International explains that “it is not unusual for 50 percent of [an uncontacted] People who are wiped out within a year of the first contact ”because of Eurasian diseases such as flu and measles. Quarantineing, monitoring and attempt to establish a dialogue after the first meeting with a member of one of these communities can help save people’s lives and to ensure that the survival of their group.
Although it has not yet been confirmed, it seems likely that the visitor to the indigenous group was first documented in the Mamoriá Grande region in 2021. Although Funai employees discovered camps and other evidence at that time, no one had seen or handled it with a member of the community until Wednesday.
This week’s historic encounter took place barely two months after Brazil did not prohibited the Mamoriá Grande area to non-native communities. Such protections are intended to protect these groups against land -gravy schemes, potential conflicts with nearby villages and to protect their health.