A remote tribe in Brazil has been found. Some group called "Survival International" is hard at work protecting them...from advanced medicine, electricity, toilet paper, knowledge, and all sorts of other advancement under the guise of some sort of politically correct notion about tribal sovereignty.I'm all for gradual introduction of the tribe into our global world of ours, but isolating them so they can be "studied" and "protected" seems to me a bit like putting these people in a zoo.
Read more here-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7426794.stm
[Update] - Guess the whole thing was a hoax. I got my all uppity over nothing :(
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/21/amazon?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews
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