My mind is equally blown by this kind of thing!

they say they are about 100 or so tribes in the whole world like this. Unfortunately I think contact is unavoidable though I'd like to think otherwise.

This type of stuff blows my mind. It also makes me a little sad - soon there won't be any such tribes left.

I live in San Francisco so I know how they feel.

They need to drop three things down there.

watermelon jolly ranchers

a nintendo DS with some games

and a picture of paula deen with a bunch of food in front of her

They will think we are Gods.

Ha! I love your list CaterpillarGirl. Anyone else have some suggestions?

P.S. Citizen votes for "fire" jollyranchers.

I'd like to walk a day in their shoes, and if I ever get the power to be invisible, I'd want to observe their lifestyle! Amazing.

Could this be a hoax?
If not, what do they think of these big noisy birds? Funny they got aggressive instead of worshipful.

That's what I was thinking janneth.

I vote for dropping the watermelon jolly ranchers...
CaterpillarGirl, those are my favorite!

i know that anthropologists must be going through deep internal struggle over this one. but to be able to study a previously unknown culture!! wow.

Has McDonalds and Coca~Cola been notified?

Those poor people I honestly have nothing but pitty for them. I say leave them the hell alone.

They don't need our pity hypnoticmix; we need theirs.

Jolly ranchers? Are you kidding? They would choke on the plastic wrappers.

I wish more people would focus on their own communities. I think a lot are wrapped up in world news and don't bother getting involved in their communities. Not that world news shouldn't be read...

Very interesting story.

They would probably think the candy was jewels or decorative objects, beads for necklaces.

they would probably laugh at us for eating stuff like jolly ranchers... it's not even food!

but i sincerely hope we leave them alone.

i have something to share with you all... a secret i promised my family i would never tell:

http://teamsugar.com/user/yesteryear/album/1676724

Wow, yy. Welcome to our world!! How long have you been out? Any thoughts about returning?

I feel like this is an invasion - weird in a way. I hope that we do not go down there and ruin their community.

This is such a weird thing ... I was talking to my SO about it.
Liberty you said "it is almost unfathomable" ... and it really is.

yesteryear i died laughing when I saw that!

Let them be.

Hypno, I thought about McDonalds too.

I could not believe it when read the story the other day. We use to talk about it in my anthro classes but one hasn't been found in a while. I love looking at the pictures. I hope we leave them alone.

wow. this is truly amazing. I hope we leave them alone too.

I recall when I was a ship's captain, we visited a remote South Pacific island where the natives had never seen anyone from the outside world. We had a young white actress aboard (part of a film being produced - long story) who we took to greet the island's inhabitants. The natives were so taken with this woman and her light features they kidnapped her from our ship one evening to sacrifice her to their island's god, "Kong". It was an adventure I will never forget.

Unfortunately, no we probably wont leave them alone. We will take their land and get rid of their kind.

rac- anyhoo, from the aerial view, it kind of looks like the cast of "lost"

There will certainly be contact now. Rogue loggers are probably on their way. The slightest contact will lead to infection with the common cold, and then death. I can't even imagine how they could be protected without destroying their way of life

The Lost season finale was totally crazy.

Caption from the article:

Mystery: The tribespeople are likely to think the plane that took this photograph is a spirit or large bird.

This is really so cool! I'm such a nerd when it comes to cultural anthropology stuff. I'm not sure what the more ethical decision would be... to establish contact or to leave them be? I'm inclined to think it would be to leave them alone, but then would they become like some sort of living people zoo for the rest of us, completely unbeknownst to them?

More of the Amazon needs to be protected. It blows my mind to think that, in this day and need, we still need to be concerned that these people could actually be killed by people with commercial interests.

*in this day and age

I honestly would give anything to live in their world, uncorrupt, humble,and i bet they are happier than we are, living day to day worrying about our damn couches and pets. i hope to god for their sake that we leave them alone in their purity and ignorance of this hell hole we live in. i dont pity them. i am happy for them.and when are we ever so satisfied that we dont think we need to conquer every world out there and grab every inch of land. and we think they are uncivilized or need pity.

The people who are red, haven't they heard about sunscreen? Oh wait... nevermind.

Bellaressa - I agree. I felt like the photos were intrusive and I do sincerely hope they are left alone, even though I'm very curious to learn more about them. I'd rather their lifestyle and culture be preserved without the intrusion of "outsiders."

This is so crazy!! I would love to see a documentary about these people. And its so fasinating to know how many worlds apart we are from them. It almost reminds me of that movie Apocalypto.

As fascinated as I am with different cultures and parts of the world, I was EXTREMELY disturbed when I read about this. The pictures speak for themselves. We may have inadvertently messed up the whole order of things for this tribe! They are probably so perplexed as to what they saw and I dont know..it just bothers me that we just cant leave them alone..as much as I enjoy all of our luxuries, I am sure they are content in their world and we shouldnt assume they will happier if we intrude on it

Wow, this story's very interesting! As much as I would like to learn more about them, I'd rather we leave them be. Unfortunately, that probably won't happen.