Debates have ignited surrounding the "so-called" untouched peoples
of the Javari Valley Reserve in the Brazilian Rainforest Amazon Basin near the border of Peru.
The local government claims that the people are not untouched and has fueling interests in lumber,
minerals and other natural land resources. This same local government has also made accusations that NGO's (Non-Government Organizations) have started the "rumors" that these people are untouched and uncontacted with and by modern society in an attempt for global sympathies to keep the people and their way of life protected.
In my opinion these people need to be left alone and their territory protected from encroachment and invasion. I believe that as people of this earth they have the right to live as they choose and if they so wish to be a part of the modern world it is something they can come into at any time. Forcing colonization on these people today or in the future would be a serious regression to the brutal and oppressive tactics that destroyed and decimated native populations globally. The desire to dominate and assimilate is a disgusting part of man kinds past and has no place in the present or future
Brazil Releases Photos of Uncontacted Native Community - Indian Country Today
