Little-known Indian tribe spotted in Peru's Amazon

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http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN2838427020070928?sp=true

Little-known Indian tribe spotted in Peru's Amazon
Fri Sep 28, 2007 4:59pm EDT
By Terry Wade and Marco Aquino

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Members of an Indian tribe are seen on a bank of a river in the jungle of Madre De Dios September 18, 2007.

LIMA (Reuters) - Ecologists have photographed a little-known nomadic tribe deep in Peru's Amazon, a sighting that could intensify debate about the presence of isolated Indians as oil firms line up to explore the jungle.

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Peru's state oil company PetroPeru says it considers tribes that shy away from outsiders to be safe as they live in protected reserve areas, which are excluded from petroleum auctions. But its president, Daniel Saba, was criticized earlier this year for saying the notion of hidden tribes was "absurd."

Rights groups say nomadic tribes travel in and out of national parks depending on the season, and encroaching loggers or oil company workers could expose them to deadly diseases. In the past, disease halved many Amazon tribal populations.

Documenting how many isolated groups exist is notoriously difficult because some tribes have hidden deeper in the forest or moved to new locations after brief encounters with outsiders.

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1. Those wouldn't be the Fukawi by any chance?

The reason no-one has seen them before is they got lost running away from the Conquistadores. They've been wandering around the jungle for the last 400 years calling out plaintively, "We're the Fukawi..."

:silly:

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3. god -- i miss johnny carson.

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2. first nations people need to be treated as just that -- nations. n/t