The correlation between this and Daniel Quinn’s alternative theory of the story of Cain and Abel is quite stark.
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Speaking of Survival International, they’ve posted a video on their website of gunmen hired by farmers to attack a Makuxi Indian village in Brazil, part of a brutal attempt at an Indian land grab.
If you read The Observer over the weekend you might have had the misfortune to come across this grubby tabloid-like excuse for journalism by Peter Beaumont, foreign affairs editor for the Observer.
Beaumont—clearly having a slow news day—focused his attention on the uncontacted tribe photos I commented on the other day, crudely attempting to drum up controversy where there is none.
Survival International has the skinny:
The British newspaper The Observer claimed on 22 June that it has now ‘emerged’ that the uncontacted tribe whose photos received worldwide publicity were neither ‘lost’, nor ‘undiscovered’ nor ‘unknown’.
Other newspapers that have picked up the article have gone further and said that the story was a ‘hoax’.
The story is not a hoax, and none of those involved in working to protect these Indians’ rights have ever claimed they were ‘undiscovered’.
He actually managed to misquote The Observer’s own sister paper, The Guardian. Follow the link in the first paragraph —’undiscovered tribe’—and you won’t find any mention of the word ‘undiscovered.’
Misquoting is bad enough, but misquoting your own colleagues? Sheesh. Another reason not to read The Observer.
Via Survival International:
‘We did the overflight to show their houses, to show they are there, to show they exist,’ said uncontacted tribes expert José Carlos dos Reis Meirelles Júnior. Meirelles works for FUNAI, the Brazilian government’s Indian affairs department. ‘This is very important because there are some who doubt their existence.’
Survival’s director Stephen Corry said today, ‘These pictures are further evidence that uncontacted tribes really do exist. The world needs to wake up to this, and ensure that their territory is protected in accordance with international law. Otherwise, they will soon be made extinct.’
You can write a letter to Peru’s president asking him to recognise his country’s isolated Indians’ land rights—which would protect uncontacted peoples on both sides of the Peru-Brazil border.
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