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Amazon Tribes Resist US Anthropologists' Attempt to Forcibly Contact the Uncontacted
Wednesday, June 01, 2016
Common Dreams
In the absence of government support, Indigenous peoples are increasingly speaking out in defense of uncontacted tribes
Lauren McCauley, staff writer
Fighting back against the notion, put forth by American academics, that isolated tribes must be forced into contact with the modern world, Amazonian Indians are warning of another potential Indigenous "genocide" if such ideas come to pass.
U.S. anthropologists Kim Hill, a professor at Arizona State University, and University of Missouri associate professor Robert Walker, have argued that in order to ensure the survival of the most remote tribal people they must be "contacted in a controlled way."
However, the people of the Amazon disagree.
Survival International, an international nonprofit that champions the rights of tribal people, said in a press statement Tuesday that at least one local tribe, the Guajajara, "have acted to protect nearby uncontacted Awá people in the absence of greater government support."
Olimpio Guajajara, the leader of the "Guajajara Guardians," as they call themselves, said in a video uploaded by the organization: "We are here...monitoring the land and defending the uncontacted Indians and the Guajajara who live here. Why? Because there are some people, some anthropologists in other countries who want, once again, to violate the rights of the uncontacted Indians in the country."
"We are aware that some anthropologists have been calling for 'controlled contact' with the uncontacted Indians," Olimpio continued. "We will not allow this to happen because it will be another genocide of a people...of an Indigenous group which doesnt want contact."
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cstanleytech
(26,080 posts)know that they dont want to be contacted then?
Judi Lynn
(160,211 posts)Forced Contact with Brazilian Tribes Is Genocide, Says Indian Leader
Newsroom 08 June 2016
South American tribes have denounced the call from American academics Kim Hill and Robert Walker for forced contact with uncontacted tribal peoples in the Amazon, warning of the catastrophic consequences such contact would bring.
Speaking in a video as part of Survival's Tribal Voice project, Guajajara Indians rejected the idea entirely. Several members of the tribe, known as the "Guajajara Guardians," have acted to protect nearby uncontacted Awá people in the absence of greater government support.
The leader of the Guardians, Olimpio Guajajara, said: "We are here
Monitoring the land and defending the uncontacted Indians and the Guajajara who live here. Why? Because there are some people, some anthropologists in other countries who want, once again, to violate the rights of the uncontacted Indians in the country."
He added: "We are aware that some anthropologists have been calling for 'controlled contact' with the uncontacted Indians
We will not allow this to happen because it will be another genocide of a people
of an indigenous group which doesn't want contact."
The Guajajara are the latest of many indigenous peoples in South America to reject the idea. Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, known as the "Dalai Lama of the rainforest," has long campaigned for the rights of uncontacted tribes to determine their own futures after witnessing the devastating impacts of contact on his people, the Yanomami, in the 20th century.
Under the Brazilian constitution, all indigenous peoples have the right to their land, including uncontacted tribes. In 1987, FUNAI, the indigenous affairs department, adopted a policy of not making contact with uncontacted tribes and continuing to demarcate their territories and enforcing protection of them.
All uncontacted tribal peoples face catastrophe unless their land is protected.
The policy of not forcing contact with uncontacted tribes is supported by Brazilian NGOs like CIMI, ISA and CTI, as well as human rights organization Survival International.
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http://www.brazzil.com/23947-forced-contact-with-brazilian-tribes-is-genocide-says-indian-leader
RegexReader
(416 posts)Contact would introduce virus that we've had immunity's for a millennium but would kill them.
I cannot think of any good that would result from it.
Just my 2¢,