Support ‘uncontacted tribes’

[MichaelHauer]

Guarani leaders are being killed. Help us stop this!

Gunmen are carrying out horrific, systematic, attacks against the Guarani. I’ve told the Brazilian President to give them back their lands – will you?

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[MichaelHauer]

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[shyvas]

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We have a petition thread in both the Environment and Animal section.

Thread 'Environmental Petitions'

Mar 17, 2021

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[Tom L.]

This is a worthy cause. However, I looked up the Guarani tribe, and I wouldn't call them "uncontacted". They are quite aware of the people of (at least partially) Spanish and Portuguese descent, who now occupy much of South America. Also, their language is one of the two official languages of Paraguay. But the Guarani people and their language/culture are facing hardship (as the link in the first post mentions). (On second thought... "hardship" doesn't really describe the situation.)

 

[MichaelHauer]

Yeah - I write ‘uncontacted tribes’ in scare quotes because many of these peoples who do not want to be drawn into the economy around them do have contacts with civilised people, loggers, gold miners, murderers, health workers, police, anthropologists etc - see Davi Kopenawa of the Yanomami for example.

Yes these people live very precariously and are being physically wiped out - and they are the only humans who live in the world without destroying it.

So Survival International works to help them - across the world - remain isolated from the economy of death that surrounds them.