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ITTY — 6 years ago(May 13, 2019 08:45 PM)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pintupi_Nine
The Pintupi Nine were a group of nine Pintupi people who lived a traditional hunter-gatherer desert-dwelling life in Australia's Gibson Desert until 1984, when they made contact with their relatives near Kiwirrkurra. They are sometimes also referred to as "the lost tribe". The group were hailed as "the last nomads" in the international press when they left their nomadic life in October 1984.
The group roamed between waterholes near Lake Mackay, near the Western Australia-Northern Territory border, wearing hairstring belts and armed with two-metre-long (6 1⁄2 ft) wooden spears and spear throwers, and intricately carved boomerangs. Their diet was dominated by goanna and rabbit as well as bush food native plants. The group was a family, consisting of two co-wives (Nanyanu and Papalanyanu) and seven children. There were four brothers (Warlimpirrnga, Walala, Tamlik, and Piyiti) and three sisters (Yalti, Yikultji and Takariya). The boys and girls were all in their early-to-late teens, although their exact ages were not known; the mothers were in their late 30s.
The father – the husband of the two wives – died, possibly from eating spoiled canned foods found at an old mining exploration camp. After this, the group travelled south to where they thought their relatives might be, as they had seen 'smokes' in that direction. They encountered a man from Kiwirrkura but due to misunderstanding they fled back north while he returned to the community and alerted others who then travelled back with him to find the group. The community members quickly realised that the group were relatives who had been left behind in the desert twenty years earlier, when many had travelled into the missions nearer Alice Springs. The community members travelled by vehicle to where the group were last seen and then tracked them for some time before finding them. After making contact and establishing their relationships, the Pintupi nine were invited to come and live at Kiwirrkura, where most of them still reside.
The Pintupi-speaking trackers told them there was plenty of food, and water that came out of pipes; Yalti has said that this concept astounded them. Medical examination revealed that the Tjapaltjarri clan (as they are also known) were "in beautiful condition. Not an ounce of fat, well proportioned, strong, fit, healthy". At Kiwirrkura, near Kintore, they met with other members of their extended family.
In 1986, Piyiti went back to the desert. Warlimpirrnga, Walala, and Tamlik (now known as "Thomas") have gained international recognition in the art world as the Tjapaltjarri Brothers. The three sisters, Yalti, Yikultji and Takariya, are also well-known Aboriginal artists whose works can be seen on exhibition and purchased from a number of art dealers. One of the mothers has died; the other has settled with the three sisters in Kiwirrkurra.
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There are still thought to be some uncontacted tribes left in the world in the Amazon. I wonder if that's true, mayne. -
Platonic_Caveman — 6 years ago(May 14, 2019 01:04 AM)
The Stone-Age Tasaday
Who are the Tasaday? Depending on whom you ask, you'll hear very different answers to this question. You'll either hear that they're a group of leaf-wearing, stone-age-tool-using cave dwellers who, when they were discovered in 1971 living in a rain forest on the Philippine island of Mindanao, believed they were the only people in the world. Or you'll hear that they're a complete fraud… poor farmers who were cynically coerced into posing as a stone-age tribe by powerful politicians. What's the truth? To that there is no simple answer.
The Tasaday As A Real Tribe
The Tasaday in their caves. Let's start with the version of the Tasaday story that the world first heard — the one in which they're a real stone-age tribe.
In this version of events, the Tasaday had been living in their caves in the rain forest for over one thousand years before their isolation ended when a hunter from a neighboring tribe stumbled upon them while laying his traps. This hunter eventually mentioned their existence to Manuel Elizalde, Jr., the adviser to Ferdinand Marcos on Filipino national minorities, and Elizalde, intrigued, choppered out into the jungle to meet them. (The exact date of this meeting has been reported as either June 4 or 7, 1971). Thus, contact was made.
Soon anthropologists, reporters, and even celebrity visitors such as Charles Lindbergh and Gina Lollobrigida, were flying out to the Tasaday's jungle home. Almost overnight the tribe went from being unknown to being internationally famous. Pictures of them posing in their caves appeared in magazines throughout the world. Documentaries about them aired on TV. A Tasaday child climbing some vines graced the cover of National Geographic. And AP photographer John Nance wrote a bestselling book about them titled The Gentle Tasaday.
National Geographic cover featuring the Tasaday. What most captivated the world about the Tasaday was their peacefulness. It was said they knew no words for enemy or conflict. They seemed to be an uncorrupted version of Man, living in a rain-forest Garden of Eden. Their gentleness was especially striking in 1971 when images of violence and horror were coming daily out of Vietnam.
But there was trouble lurking in the background for the Tasaday, trouble that stemmed from their close association with Manuel Elizalde, Jr. From the moment of their discovery, Elizalde had appointed himself their protector and tightly controlled access to them, but Elizalde was a controversial figure. He was a wealthy playboy with numerous business interests and lofty political ambitions (and thus many enemies), who, despite his jet-setting ways, liked to promote himself as a champion of tribal minorities. The tight rein he kept on access to the Tasaday angered many, and when he persuaded Marcos to declare the Tasaday's rain forest a protected reserve, many were suspicious that sinister motives underlay his interest in the tribe. Specifically, his enemies suspected that he was using the Tasaday both to engineer a massive land-grab and to further his political ambitions.
This was the state of affairs when Marcos declared martial law in 1972, causing access to the Tasaday to become much more restricted. And when Marcos issued a decree in 1976 "protecting the Tasaday and other unexplored cultural communities from unauthorized entry," access to the Tasaday ended altogether. No one was allowed to visit them, and so, from the point of view of the outside world, the Tasaday abruptly vanished from sight.
The Tasaday As A Fake Tribe
Manuel Elizalde (right) embraces one of the Tasaday (July, 1971) In 1986 the Marcos government was overthrown, and Oswald Iten, a Swiss journalist, accompanied and guided by a Filipino reporter named Joey Lozano, seized this opportunity to trek out into the jungle to find out what had become of the Tasaday. What Iten found shocked him, and soon became the basis for the second version of the Tasaday story, the one in which they're an outrageous hoax.
Iten found the Tasaday's caves empty and the tribe members living in huts nearby, dressed in jeans and t-shirts, living a simple, but certainly not primitive, lifestyle. Upon questioning them (using Lozano as a translator), two of the Tasaday admitted to Iten that they weren't really a stone-age tribe and never had been. They claimed that Elizalde had pressured them into posing as one. "We didnt live in caves, only near them, until we met Elizalde," they said. "Elizalde forced us to live in the caves so that we'd be better cavemen. Before he came, we lived in huts on the other side of the mountain and we farmed. We took off our clothes because Elizalde told us to do so and promised if we looked poor that we would get assistance. He gave us money to pose as Tasaday and promised us security from counter-insurgency and tribal fighting."
Iten's discovery sent shockwaves around the world — a fake stone-age tribe managed to surprise even the most jaded newspaper readers — and soon reporter -
Platonic_Caveman — 6 years ago(May 14, 2019 06:01 AM)
Nah, it's an interesting story. But be careful of anything in the media. Even National Geographic was duped by the Tasaday.
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ohnoes — 6 years ago(May 14, 2019 04:45 AM)
Aboriginals were still being slaughtered for just being aboriginals up to 1920.
After European settlers arrived in 1788, thousand of aborigines died from diseases; colonists systematically killed many others. At first contact, there were over 250,000 aborigines in Australia. The massacres ended in the 1920 leaving no more than 60,000. -
MovieManCin2 — 6 years ago(May 14, 2019 07:55 AM)
The people on the
North Sentinel Island
in the Bay of Bengal east of India's coast still live that way, and have done so for the past 60,000 years. The island is stictly off limits to everyone per Indian Government law, partly because a party which went there to make contact a few years back, were all killed.
MAGA! FAFO!
Schrodinger's Cat walks into a bar, and doesn't. Dumbocraps: evil people who celebrate murder. 
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Platonic_Caveman — 6 years ago(May 14, 2019 08:07 AM)
I remember after the big 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean, seeing film shot over the Andaman Islands. You could only see some tiny figure below shaking a spear at the helicopter, like he didn't even know what it was. There are still some very isolated areas on earth.
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