Man of the Hole
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Man of the Hole
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#2Related:
Man of the Hole - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32703518 - Sept 2022 (3 comments)
'Man of the Hole': Last of his tribe dies in Brazil - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32638304 - Aug 2022 (14 comments)
Amazon activists mourn death of ‘man of the hole’, last of his tribe - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32633003 - Aug 2022 (2 comments)
Man of the Hole - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29445016 - Dec 2021 (6 comments)
Isolated man in Amazon Jungle - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12557052 - Sept 2016 (4 comments)
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#3For anyone interested in this topic, this organisation does a lot to empower and defend indigenous tribes against these practices: https://amazonfrontlines.org/
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#4Breaks my heart to think at how greed motivates genocides.
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#5It’s a real loss when we lose tribes like this because we also lose 50,000 years of accumulated knowledge.
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#6Breaks my heart to think at how greed motivates genocides.
I suppose the state of Brazil is something that could be considered a settler colonial project and with it's continued existence this sort of thing remains doomed to happen.
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#7No post body was provided.
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#8On a related note, it's not quite forty years since the Pintupi Nine first directly encountered "the modern world":
> In 1984 a group of Australian Aboriginal people living a traditional nomadic life were encountered in the heart of the Gibson desert in Western Australia.
> They had been unaware of the arrival of Europeans on the continent, let alone cars - or even clothes.
> If you want to know how Australian Aboriginal peoples lived for 40,000 years, just ask Yukultji.
> She stepped into the 20th Century just 30 years ago.
~ (written in 2014) https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30500591
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#9It’s a real loss when we lose tribes like this because we also lose 50,000 years of accumulated knowledge.
How is that knowledge accumulated? I suppose these tribes lack writing?
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#10On a related note, it's not quite forty years since the Pintupi Nine first directly encountered "the modern world": > In 1984 a group of Australian Aboriginal people living a traditional nomadic life were encountered in the heart of the Gibson desert in Western Australia. > They had been unaware of the arrival of Europeans on the continent, let alone cars - or even clothes. > If you want to know how Australian Aborig…
"If you want to know how Australian Aboriginal peoples lived .." is a bit daft (I know you're quoting so I'm not attributing that daftness to you). Australia is a continent with a wide range of ecologies and climatic zones (we're not all hot dry desert!). There were some 500 odd indigenous language groups, living quite differently, despite having some level of continent-wide awareness (via trade routes and songlines). And they certainly underwent changes over those 40,000 years.
Amazing story just the same.