A tribe exposes itself:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46202743

It is clear they don't want to be bothered.I've heard of free(they call it uncivilized) people dying right after they are exposed to civilization.They can't handle the change.Their better off living that way, then the way we live.They are free and we are not.Jennifer

Jennifer, it is clear to me that they are being forced out of their home, the forest. If the invaders would leave them alone they wouldn't need machetes and such.

Yeah why don't they leave people alone.The people that are forcing them out probably want their land.The raw Amazons are getting smaller and smaller.A Peruvian lady that has cut my hair said her family owns land in the Amazons and it is all they could do to hang on to it.She said it is beautiful land and rich people want to come in their and buy it all up for their resorts.

Jennifer,

Before they want the land itself, they want what is on the land and under the land. First logging then gas and oil and mineral. Second they will want a place to dispose of toxic waste. If there is anything left it will be turned into agribusiness. Sound familiar?

And where does that leave this tribe?

Nowhere but to become civilized or dead.Jennifer

http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/9023

Amazon Indians from Peru and Brazil have joined together to stop a Canadian oil company destroying their land and threatening the lives of uncontacted tribes.

Hundreds of Matsés Indians gathered on the border of Peru and Brazil last Saturday and called on their governments to stop the exploration, warning that the work will devastate their forest home.

The oil giant Pacific Rubiales is headquartered in Canada and has already started oil exploration in ‘Block 135’ in Peru, which lies directly over an area proposed as an uncontacted tribes reserve.

In a rare interview with Survival, a Matsés woman said, ‘Oil will destroy the place where our rivers are born. What will happen to the fish? What will the animals drink?’
Matsés

Matsés woman Antonina Duni Goya Nesho talks about her son’s future

The Matsés number around 2,200 and live along the Peru-Brazil border. Together with the closely-related Matis tribe, they were known as the ‘Jaguar people’ for their facial decorations and tattoos, which resembled the jaguar’s whiskers and teeth.

The Matsés were first contacted in the 1960s, and have since suffered from diseases introduced by outsiders. Uncontacted tribes are also at extreme risk from contact with outsiders through the introduction of diseases to which they have little or no immunity.

Despite promising to protect the rights of its indigenous citizens, the Peruvian government has allowed the $36 million project to go ahead. Contractors will cut hundreds of miles of seismic testing lines through the forest home of the uncontacted tribes, and drill exploratory wells.

The government has also granted a license for oil explorations to go ahead in ‘Block 137’, just north of ‘Block 135’, which lies directly on Matsés land. Despite massive pressure from the company, the tribe is firmly resisting the oil company’s activities in their forest.

The effects of oil work are also likely to be felt across the border in Brazil’s Javari Valley, home to several other uncontacted tribes, as seismic testing and the construction of wells threaten to pollute the headwaters of several rivers on which the tribes depend.

Survival’s Director Stephen Corry said, ‘The Canadian state was founded on the theft of tribal land. When Europeans invaded Canada, they introduced alien diseases, seized control of natural resources, and brought about the extinction of entire peoples. It’s a great irony that a Canadian company today is poised to commit the same crimes against tribes in Peru. Why doesn’t the Peruvian government uphold its own commitments to tribal rights? History tells us that when uncontacted peoples’ land is invaded, death, disease and destruction follow.’