Members of an uncontacted Amazon tribe are mourning after the sudden killings of members. After revealing a little too much information out in public, mine workers are being accused of performing these acts. A quote from the New York Times states, “The miners, she said, claimed that “they had to kill them or be killed.””
After reading this quote, I have come to question what all we as humans do not know about one another. Some are lucky to be so advanced with different aspects of life, while there are others living so primitively. Questions arise from this in my head of if there is more we as civilians can do to better prepare for situations such as this one, and handle it in a different manner.
Before reading the article from New York Times, I personally didn’t fully comprehend that there are still uncontacted tribes around the world. In my personal opinion, it is a little different for me, as I have never been out of the country for work, but for workers either coming to a different country for business, or even natives of Brazil, there needs to be more of an educational basis if they plan to work anywhere where they could come in to contact with people unknown to them.
Anything that appears out of the ordinary to me, comes as odd, or different. I am lucky enough to adapt well to odd situations. In another article from IFLScience, there is discussion about the different risk factors that a tribe could come in to contact with if indeed they do come upon civilization. So, the question remains, should there be more done through research and traveling in to rainforests to meet and interact with these different tribes? Or can there be a different way to gain the knowledge without bothering these tribes ecosystems?