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Madtowntripper
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Re: last uncontacted tribes firing... hoax, lol [Re: zouden]
#8557348 - 06/24/08 06:34 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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No, thats not true.
The tribe has been in contact since 1920, at least that is what I read in TIME today.
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Re: last uncontacted tribes firing... hoax, lol [Re: Madtowntripper]
#8557377 - 06/24/08 06:53 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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Hmmm... this is the article I read:
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They are the amazing pictures that were beamed around the globe: a handful of warriors from an "undiscovered tribe" in the rainforest on the Brazilian-Peruvian border brandishing bows and arrows at the aircraft that photographed them.
Or so the story was told and sold. But it has now emerged that, far from being unknown, the tribe's existence has been noted since 1910 and the mission to photograph them was undertaken in order to prove "uncontacted" tribes still existed in an area endangered by the menace of the logging industry.
The disclosures have been made by the man behind the pictures, Jose Carlos Meirelles, 61, one of the handful of sertanistas - experts on indigenous tribes - working for the Brazilian Indian Protection Agency, Funai, which is dedicated to searching out remote tribes and protecting them.
In his first interviews since the disclosure of the tribe's existence, Meirelles described how he found the group, detailed how they lived and planned the publicity to protect them and other tribes in similar danger of losing the habitat in which they have flourished for hundreds of years.
Meirelles admitted that the tribe was first known about almost a century ago and the apparently chance encounter that produced the now famous images was no accident. "When we think we might have found an isolated tribe, a sertanista like me walks in the forest for two or three years to gather evidence and we mark it in our [global positioning system]. We then map the territory the Indians occupy and we draw that protected territory without making contact with them. And finally we set up a small outpost where we can monitor their protection."
But Meirelles appears, controversially, to have gone out to seek and find the uncontacted tribe in an area where it was known to live. According to his account, the Brazilian state of Acre offered him the use of an aircraft for three days. "I had years of GPS co-ordinates," he said. Meirelles argues the pictures were powerful and indisputable evidence to those who say isolated tribes no longer exist. But he is determined to keep the tribe's location secret. "They can decide when they want contact, not me or anyone else."
It's a bit ambiguous really
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Re: last uncontacted tribes firing... hoax, lol [Re: Madtowntripper]
#8559241 - 06/24/08 05:29 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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Madtowntripper said: No, thats not true. . The tribe has been in contact since 1920, at least that is what I read in TIME today.
Tell me, what is "TRUE"....?  I read on Yahoo today that they have been known since 1910....
So dood, which time were they lying, and what were they lying about this time....?  Of course it's not the "terrible media", everything they say is all true, soak up the swill.....! 
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Madtowntripper said: your interpretation is no more right and valid than yours however much you invoke the "terrible media" clause.
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PhanTomCat said: Due to the inconsistencies in the story, the world may never know what REALLY happened.... Such is the nature of the media, and my point exactly....  . . >^;;^<
I hate to say "I told ya~ so", but, I really don't hate it at the moment..... This turn of events is nothing short of ironically funny - given our discussion....! 
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Re: Pictures of one of Earth's last uncontacted tribes firing bows and arrows [Re: ShroomMan420]
#8559276 - 06/24/08 05:46 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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I wonder if they shrink heads. Of course, if they weren't trained by the CIA, they wouldn't shrink heads.
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Re: last uncontacted tribes firing... hoax, lol [Re: PhanTomCat]
#8559637 - 06/24/08 07:27 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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I read on Yahoo today that they have been known since 1910....
Known or contacted?
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Re: last uncontacted tribes firing... hoax, lol [Re: zorbman]
#8559837 - 06/24/08 08:13 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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I can't find a link, but I had copied the article and sent it thru e-mail from work.... This is the article I read today....:
""The Not-So-Lost Tribe by Mike Krumboltz . June 23, 2008 06:09:40 PM . Even in an age when cynical sleuths can hyper-analyze stories for truth and accuracy, the occasional hoax still slips through the cracks. Such was the case with a so-called "lost Amazon tribe." . A few months ago, mainstream news outlets (including, ahem, Yahoo!) reported that a photographer had found a lost tribe of warriors near the Brazilian-Peruvian border. Photos of the tribe backed up his claim. . As it turns out, the story is only half true. The men in the photo are members of a tribe, but it certainly ain't "lost." In fact, as the photographer, José Carlos Meirelles, recently explained, authorities have known about this particular tribe since 1910. The photographer and the agency that released the pictures wanted to make it seem like they were members of a lost tribe in order to call attention to the dangers the logging industry may have on the group. . The photographer recently came clean, and news outlets, perhaps embarrassed at having been taken for a ride, have been slow to pick up the story. Now, the word is starting to spread and articles in the Buzz are picking up steam. Expect a lot more brutal truth in the coming days.""
I am already seeing news articles saying that the article was not a hoax.... 
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Re: last uncontacted tribes firing... hoax, lol *DELETED* [Re: PhanTomCat]
#8566048 - 06/26/08 10:08 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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Re: last uncontacted tribes firing... hoax, lol [Re: roby000]
#8567723 - 06/26/08 04:56 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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Certainly.... Make sure you read up on the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide, I hear that it can be quite a killer.... 
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Re: last uncontacted tribes firing... hoax, lol [Re: PhanTomCat]
#8568074 - 06/26/08 06:12 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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they have a really funny site about that somewhere.
peace
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Re: last uncontacted tribes firing... hoax, lol [Re: roby000]
#8568855 - 06/26/08 09:21 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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I'm gonna laugh when they get there and find Richard Dreyfuss and his family all dressed up!
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Re: last uncontacted tribes firing... hoax, lol [Re: ToTheSummit]
#8571656 - 06/27/08 04:33 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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Was that reference too obscure? Did I kill this thread?
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Re: last uncontacted tribes firing... hoax, lol [Re: ToTheSummit]
#8572284 - 06/27/08 07:55 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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I think it was tapering off anyways.
Were you referring to 'What About Bob?'
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Re: last uncontacted tribes firing... hoax, lol [Re: ToTheSummit]
#8572459 - 06/27/08 08:49 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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Yeah, you lost me on that one.....
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Re: last uncontacted tribes firing... hoax, lol [Re: zorbman]
#8574458 - 06/28/08 02:15 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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zorbman said: Were you referring to 'What About Bob?'
"Krippendorf's Tribe"
If you've seen the movie you'd understand the reference in this thread.
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