Pure, Uncorrupted, and in Danger There's new footage of one of
the over 100 uncontacted tribes around the world--living in
harmony with the lands of the lush Amazon forest. This footage
was taken from afar, in order to prove the tribe’s existence to
disbelieving governments. For over 20 years, Jose Carlos
Morales, of Brazil’s Department of Indian Affairs, has monitored
from afar the people tilling their gardens, growing food,
raising a grove of annato trees, used for body paint. Morales
describes how,“Peru’s President Garcia has publicly suggested
uncontacted tribes have been ‘invented’ by ‘environmentalists’
opposed to oil exploration in the Amazon, while another
spokesperson compared them to the Loch Ness monster." However,
Morales says that things are changing-- as illegal logging and
mining companies are coming closer to driving the tribes out of
their homes. Unlike the camera crew that filmed for evidence,
these loggers “won’t shoot images-- they’ll shoot guns.” The
tribe’s also in danger from contact wi