Uncontacted Indian tribe found in Brazil's Amazon - International Herald Tribune - The Diigo Meta page

• 03 Jun 07
  

  Daniel Rourke

  An Indian tribe that has had no formal contact with Western civilization has been located in a remote Amazon region, federal authorities said Friday.
  
  The Metyktire tribe, with about 87 members, was found last week in an area that is difficult to reach

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• 02 Jun 07
  

  Adam Bohannon

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  • 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.
  • Uncontacted tribes are usually discovered when loggers and ranchers encroach on their territories.
  • 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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