Uncontacted Amazon Tribes - Visit, Envy, Leave Them Alone? Travel Wishlist?

 Pictures have been released about uncontacted tribes. I wish to deal with two questions.

Should they be left alone?

Is their lifestyle better than ours?

Protecting Uncontacted Tribes

1 Yes, I agree with most readers that the tribes should be protected. From diseases imported by us. Not because they are frail. Because they don't have immunity.

Until we can protect them all by vaccinations - which they might refuse because they don't understand the need, or think we are trying to kill them. (And a mad doctor or company trying to grab land might do so).

2 Also lone adventurers who try to contact cannibals and get themselves killed should be protected from their.

Are Uncontacted Tribes Long-lived?

3 However, I believe it is wishful thinking to imagine that they all live stress free lives, harmoniously with each other and their environment, and are long lived.

This is a view held by hikers, mountain climbers, farmers, introverts. 

Around the world, people in the countryside are flooding into cities. People from countries living with political systems and religions founded years ago are trying to get to the cities.

Camping Versus City Life

I tried camping as a teen and hated it. I couldn't wait to get back to toilets, running water.

I look at the life expectancy of people in the 1880s and learn that many children died before the age of five. Women died in childbirth. The elderly lost their teeth and died.

When we look at old burial grounds, we find many people died young, even rich pharaohs, kings, in all the countries I know of. Others were killed by invaders or their own rulers, or elders. 

Child Sacrifice Ended

Primitive tribes would sacrifice their newly born babies to the gods, sacrifice them for a good harvest, bury them in doorways for good luck.

Evil or illness is blamed on witches, who are killed.

As for safety. They don't have car accidents. They still have to face insects, reptiles. Villagers in India are killed by tigers, snakes, crocodiles. Nomads live in constant danger of attack. 

Plus accidents.

International Aid

What about bad weather, the worst weather. In a flood or storm, tsunami, earthquake primitive tribes don't have the army, the government, other countries, or UNESCO, to send them help..

I read about a man who lived on an isolated mountain top and lost his young wife, who died without help from outside. He spent the rest of his life building a road to civilisation. Could this be a fake story, wishful thinking? The state of India published a stamp about him.

We have massive investments in taking medicine out to remote people, curing blindness, repairing cleft lips, giving prosthetic limbs to those injured or born without limbs. 

Wish List For Seeing Remote Tribes

I went to Indonesia. I heard about what went on in the bad old days. Cannibalism.

'Have You Ever Met A Cannibal?'

I have met the grandson of a cannibal in Indonesia. He was our guide. I hesitantly asked, 'Have you ever  met a cannibal?]

He looked at me in astonishment, outraged, at my daft question. 

'Two generations back, in parts of my country, cannibalism was normal. Of course I met cannibals. My grandfather was one. No different to anybody else.'

Seeing these remote Amazon tribes is on my travel wish list of dreams, places I shall research. However, this is separate from my travel bucket list of things I actually intend to do.

Maybe one day we will be able to contact the remote tribes, give them the benefit of our modern healthcare, without risking spreading disease to them, before we know how to protect them.

Meanwhile, we may have to keep our distance, until we can be sure that we are giving them only benefits. But if you want to travel to all the remotest places, without the risk giving residents the flu, or of being hit by a poisoned arrow, you can read National Geographic magazine, or follow links suggested by Wikipedia.

Useful Websites About Remote Tribes, Villages, People

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15470957/footage-hunters-uncontacted-Amazon-tribe.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncontacted_peoples

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashrath_Manjhi

BBC article on the Tsimanes of Bolivia

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceq55l2gdxxo

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