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On the border of Peru and Brazil, an uncontacted group of people wearing loincloths and carrying weapons was recently filmed meeting outsiders.

New video shows an isolated tribe from the Amazon rainforest in Brazil making contact for the first time with villagers who live along a river at the Peruvian border.

The native group identified as the Rio Xinane, who are part of the Panoan linguistic group, visited the Ashaninka, a settled indigenous group, who live along the Envira River near the border of Peru, on June 26.

The Rio Xinane, who wear only loincloths, returned again to the village on June 30, and stayed for three days with the help of an interpreter who was brought to the scene. The second encounter was recorded by Brazil’s Indigenous Affairs Department, according to AFP.

In the video, an Ashaninka man in shorts gives banana bunches to two indigenous men. The men then quickly retreat, peel the bananas and begin to eat the fruit.

The indigenous group has probably had sporadic contact with outsiders — evident by the gun one man is carrying. It’s possible the tribe met drug traffickers or loggers, who they may have stolen guns and other tools from.

The men are also seen carrying bows and arrows and spears.
The term uncontacted tribe is used to describe groups who do not have regular contact with the mainstream world. There are believed to be about 100 uncontacted tribes that exist, with 77 of them living in Brazil, according to Survival International.
The group told an interpreter that they had been attacked and their homes had been burned in the past. Many of them had also died after coming down with the flu and other diseases.

They said they had emerged again from the woods to contact the village for medical treatment. Seven people from the group were treated for the flu by a team sent by the government.

Survival International said that the tribe was vulnerable “as they lack immunity to common diseases spread by outsiders” and that contact with outsiders could be “disastrous.” They added the group “depend entirely on their land for their survival,” which they are being forced out of by illegal loggers.

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On March 25, 2014 a low-flying aircraft in the Brazilian state of Acre shot these images of frightened warriors pointing at the plane holding spears and arrows. Tribes like this one have existed for centuries in complete isolation of the rest of the world.

The problem is that when contact between the globalized world and the tribes does happen, it usually involves violent clashes with bullets flying in one direction and spears and arrows in the other.

The Brazilian photographer Lunaé Parracho, who took the photographs for Reuters news agency, says that he believes “that the existence of these people, and their choice to live in isolation, forces us to think about what is truly important and how far our own society is willing to go in the name of the dollar.”

A lack of resources and personnel makes it difficult now to protect these tribes from repeated incursions, which have become more and more frequent in recent years.

The positive result of these photos is that they have spread awareness of these tribes and ignited discussion around their fate.

These isolated tribes have been at the mercy of drug-traffickers, logging pressure, and destruction of their natural habitat. But now, with the release of these photos, more and more people around the world know of their existence and pressure is mounting to determine how to fairly deal with them. Spread the word about what is happening by clicking below.

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