The Brazilian government released pictures yesterday of a previously uncontacted isolated tribe of indigenous jungle-dwelling people. The pictures, taken from an airplane, show men from the village pointing their bows and arrows at the plane, and a group of thatch hut-like structures similar to those employed by other, already known Amazon peoples:

"We did the overflight to show their houses, to show they are there, to show they exist," the group quoted Jose Carlos dos Reis Meirelles Junior, an official in the Brazilian government’s Indian affairs department, as saying.

"This is very important because there are some who doubt their existence."

He described the threats to such tribes and their land as "a monumental crime against the natural world" and "further testimony to the complete irrationality with which we, the ‘civilised’ ones, treat the world".

 

 

 

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