Peru set to make first contact with tribe

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Irish Examiner

Peru set to make first contact with tribe

Thursday, July 23, 2015
Mitra Taj, Lima

Peru will try to make contact for the first time with an Amazonian tribe that largely lives isolated in the jungle, part of a bid to ease tensions with nearby villages after a bow-and-arrow attack in May.

Government anthropologists will try to talk with a clan of Mashco Piro Indians to understand why they have been emerging from the forest, said deputy culture minister Patricia Balbuena.

The Mashco Piro have increasingly been spotted seeking machetes and food outside their jungle enclaves in the Manu National Park in southeastern Peru.

Villagers, Christian missionaries and tourists have all interacted with the tribe, often giving them clothes and food. “The only ones who haven’t been in contact with them are representatives of the state,” said Balbuena.


Read more: http://www.irishexaminer.com/world/peru-set-to-make-first-contact-with-tribe-344112.html

[Judi Lynn]

1. Mascho Piro tribe: Peruvian government to make first contact with indigenous rainforest tribe

Mascho Piro tribe: Peruvian government to make first contact with indigenous rainforest tribe
Siobhan Fenton
Wednesday 22 July 2015

Anthropologists are preparing to make contact for the first time with an Amazonian tribe which lives in isolation in the rainforest.

Mashco Piro Indians are a community of around 600 nomadic people who continually move through the forest. Little is known about the group. The Peruvian government prohibits contact with the Mashco Piro Indians and a dozen other “uncontacted” tribes.

The government says that ban on contact protects the indigenous groups whose immune systems are unable to protect against common diseases.

However, English language Peruvian news outlet Peru This Week says that the government has now been forced to review their policy and has now given Anthropologists permission to engage with the group. This is due to the fact that in recent times, tribes people from Mascho Piro have been frequently spotted emerging from their community and seem to be trying to contact the wider world.

More:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mascho-piro-tribe-peruvian-government-to-make-first-contact-with-indigenous-rainforest-tribe-10406614.html

[Judi Lynn]

2. Fascist Paraguay vs. indigenous people: What happens when an uncontacted tribe meets 'civilisation'?

What happens when an uncontacted tribe meets 'civilisation'?
Nina Lakhani
Saturday 04 February 2012


Margarita Mbywangy has spent her life fighting for the right to exist. At the age of five, she was kidnapped and sold into domestic slavery, removed from her family and the hunter-gather way of life that her Ache tribe had practiced in eastern Paraguay for millennia.

Ms Mbywangy spent the next 13 years known only as Margarita – the name chosen by her new "mother" who insisted she was her daughter, but never hugged her, didn't send her to school and made her cook and clean for the family. She looked and felt different; people in the street called her "Indo" – a derogatory term used to insult Paraguay's indigenous people – but she had no identity papers, just a name.

This part of her story is by no means extraordinary. In the 1960s and 1970s many indigenous children in Paraguay were kidnapped and their parents killed by government forces and farmers who wanted to develop the acres of forest, their ancestral land, where they lived a nomadic life, trying to avoid the threats of the "civilised" world.

By 1976, all the Ache had been forcibly resettled on small areas of designated land where they had to swap hunter-gathering for agriculture in order to survive. Many died trying to defend themselves and the forest; many more died from new diseases such as flu because they had no immunity to these common conditions. The land was sold to farmers, roads were built and the valuable timber harvested. Only 36 families survived the slaughter. The government was accused of genocide.

More:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/what-happens-when-an-uncontacted-tribe-meets-civilisation-6358885.html

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(Paraguay was ruled for 35 years by US-supported President Alfredo Stroessner during this time, who gave haven to Nazi monster, Dr. Josef Mengele, "Josef Mengele, "Angel of Death" who experimented on human beings at Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp, after he fled Europe at the end of WWII.)