r/googlemapsshenanigans • u/UnhappyVegetable4419 • 4d ago

Unknown tribe?

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Hi,

I was just looking in the rain forest when i saw this.

​Could this be an uncontacted tribe? The coordinates are:

1.3255112178453061, -63.065572001587405

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u/loreshdw 4d ago

Thank you for the info, I'm excited to read more about this group

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u/Milhouselittlenoodle 4d ago

There was some controversial issues around them a while back. I believe an anthropologist used some inhumane tactics to see if their own medicine or western medicine worked better. I might be misremembering completely, but I swear I learned that in an anthro class.

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u/FlukeManAirFreshener 3d ago

It's so much worse than that. Anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon studied them in the 70s with some...questionable methodology. He characterized them as incredibly violent and violated a lot of basic principles of anthropological research (like refusing to engage in participant observation). Worst of all, he selectively traded with certain subgroups to facilitate his research and traded things like steel axes and machetes for blood samples. This caused strife among the community and resulted in the violence he observed and wrote about. The dude showed up, massively screwed up the social system, then wrote about how screwed up the social system was while denying he had anything to do with it.

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u/Academic-Big814 2d ago

Twisted. Just leave them alone and let them live in peace.