http://enperublog.com/2007/10/25/suffering-of-uncontacted-amazon-tribes/ All you could ever want to know about Peru Sun, 26 Feb 2023 22:03:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://enperublog.com/2007/10/25/suffering-of-uncontacted-amazon-tribes/comment-page-1/#comment-16755 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:26:13 +0000 http://enperublog.com/?p=737#comment-16755 […] Groups in voluntary isolation however only make up a small fraction of the total native population. The bulk are organised into communities according to their language group. In the 1993 census, 300,000 natives in 65 indigenous groups were recorded in 1,450 communities. In the 20th century some 18 ethnic groups were wiped out by either the rubber tappers, the diseases they brought or were forced into and assimilated by large cities. […]

]]> http://enperublog.com/2007/10/25/suffering-of-uncontacted-amazon-tribes/comment-page-1/#comment-10548 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:11:09 +0000 http://enperublog.com/?p=737#comment-10548 […] only logical that more social conflicts will occur. This may be swift and silent in the form of the genocide of an uncontacted tribe coming face to face with intruders and their diseases for the first time, or by indigenous people […]

]]> http://enperublog.com/2007/10/25/suffering-of-uncontacted-amazon-tribes/comment-page-1/#comment-258 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:40:32 +0000 http://enperublog.com/?p=737#comment-258 These people have got no powerful friends in high places who speak out on behalf of them… and yes, I have read about the horrors of the Amazonian rubber boom at the turn of the 19th century. No wonder many of these tribes have shunned outsiders ever since.

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