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Uncontacted Indian tribe found in Brazil's Amazon
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 01 - 06 - 2007


An Indian tribe that has had
no formal contact with Western civilization has been
located in a remote Amazon region, federal authorities said
Friday, according to AP.
The Metyktire tribe, with about 87 members, was found last
week in an area that is difficult to reach because of thick
jungle and a lack of nearby rivers some 2,000 kilometers
(1,200 miles) northwest of Rio de Janeiro, said Mario
Moura, a spokesman for the Federal Indian Bureau, or Funai.
The tribe is a subgroup of the Kayapo tribe, and lives on
its 4.9-million-hectare (12.1-million-acre) Menkregnoti
Indian reservation, Moura said.
The Kayapo had no significant contact with the Metyktire
until two tribe members inexplicably appeared at a Kayapo
village last week, he said.
«We don't know why they decided to make contact now ...
only time will tell. This is a very slow process,» Moura
said.
Uncontacted tribes are usually discovered when loggers and
ranchers encroach on their territories.
Patrick Cunningham of the London-based Indigenous People's
Cultural Support Trust, which is involved in an unrelated
expedition in the region, said in an e-mail that the tribe
speaks an archaic version of the Kayapo language.
Cunningham, who has not met the tribe, said the Kayapo
believe it is was formed by a group of families who fled
deeper into the forest when the pioneering Indian defender
Orlando Villas Boas appeared in the area in the 1950s.
Megaron Txcucarramae, a Kayapo Indian and Funai
representative in the region, met with the newly found
group in Kremoro village and banned all but a medical team
from entering or leaving, fearing the tribe could be more
vulnerable to diseases than the Kayapo, Cunningham said.
Miriam Ross, a campaigner with the indigenous rights group
Survival International, estimates there are more than 100
uncontacted tribes across the world.
«This proves that often we just don't know whether these
people are there or not,» Ross said by telephone from
London.
About 700,000 Indians live in Brazil, mostly in the Amazon
region. Some 400,000 live on reservations where they try to
maintain their traditional culture, language and lifestyle.
Indians were pushed deeper into the jungle by settlers and
it is relatively uncommon for the Indian Bureau to come
across previously uncontacted native groups. The bureau
said that it has learned from other Indians of a few
uncontacted tribes in the western Amazon state, where the
region's jungle is thickest.
Moura said anthropologists no longer attempt to contact
those groups, but instead demarcate the land and wait for
them to make contact.


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