What can Brazilians tell me about their indigenous tribes who have yet to contact civilization?
What can Brazilians tell me about their indigenous tribes who have yet to contact civilization?
Ian Davis
Jeremiah Reed
Gabriel Roberts
Why do they look and sound asian?
Carson Sullivan
They are closer genetically to like Indonesians or some shit
Andrew Collins
because they were originally from asia kek
Nathan Torres
Why are they so small? Someone might step on them
Christian Martinez
Native Americans came from Siberia. Pic related, even some of their languages are still related to Asian languages.
Not Indonesians, Siberians.
Carter Evans
AFAIK they're not "uncontacted" but "isolated". they got word about the white man somehow and refuse to establish any form of contact with the southamerican governments
asian genes, as mentioned above
Adam Cook
thats your natives not ours
Aiden Anderson
Fascinating video, does anybody understand a word they're saying?
I heard some latin language at the beginning then it's just complete gibberish.
also why are they constantly scratching their balls lol
James Peterson
they have many of them, an estimated 10% of brazilians speak native languages, such as tupi and guarini. Not all of those 10% are full native, but most are
Bentley Lee
Your natives are basically the same as our natives genetically. They came over in the same migration from Siberia. Only the Inuit came over in a different migration.
Luis Butler
They're cannibals.
Noah Williams
Jackson Allen
>scratching
reaccomodating. it's what happens when you don't wear proper boxers
AFAIK they only eat the dead
something to do with absorbing his powers and all that animistic crap
Evan Young
they are speaking cayapó which is literally a general 1700s language spoken in Brazil, I can't understand shit, but when they say "Are you guys from Peru? This Brazil" and keep on repeating "PERU PERU PERU", and they look surprised and say "PERÓ?", which means "Portuguese" in Tupi, and this name came because one of the first portuguese explorers in Brazil was Pero Vaz de Caminha
Ryan Smith
>The DNA that links these groups had to come from somewhere. Because the groups have about as much in common with Australians as they do with New Guineans, the researchers think that they all share a common ancestor that lived tens of thousands of years ago in Asia but that doesn’t otherwise persist today. One branch of this family tree moved north to Siberia, while the other spread south to New Guinea and Australia. The northern branch likely migrated across the land bridge in a separate surge from the Eurasian founders.
Ok so they mixed with the ancestors of native Americans before coming to the Americas. It's not like Austronesians sailed across the Pacific and landed in South America.
Jace Powell
I think I read somewhere that a tribe in Papua New Guinea or something practiced cannibalism and they had this mysterious disease called kuru or something, people would start convulsing and later they died ,and basically this happened because they ate their dead. I wonder if this happens to Latin American indians as well?
Even more fascinating. Are you implying their native language kept the name of the first white devil that set foot upon their lands and was handed down each generation for hundreds of years?
Luke Reed
>Are you implying their native language kept the name of the first white devil that set foot upon their lands and was handed down each generation for hundreds of years?
yeap, Tupi was widely spoken by the colonists and the jesuits until the XVIII century, almost all the documents until the XVIII were written in Tupi. The Portuguese allied themselves with the Tupi tribe which was the coast natives and as a result they and the portuguese expanded their culture Brazil Wide, and the jesuits taught them civilization and catholicism, also the reason why racemixing was so common too
en.wikipedia.org
Nolan Evans
if one of the dead were to have the kuru virus or another one, then yeah everyone would be infected
when it comes to a dead relative, all the tribe eats him, when it comes to a enemy felled in battle i think only the warrior who killed him gets to eat him
either way, i think i read kuru was related to a specific germ that caused encephalitis and turned the person's brain to mush,like "mad cow disease"
>Are you implying their native language kept the name of the first white devil that set foot upon their lands and was handed down each generation for hundreds of years?
well they don't have TV or anything to distract themselves with, why not? just imagine all those bards in the Medieval Ages and translate it to jungle people
Jonathan Sullivan
I never would've thought primitive tribes without writing would have such a long collective memory. Impressive. I really ought to learn more about Latin America, and its history.
Totally gross. Although. According to some scientists, at the dawn of civilization, almost all humans had practiced cannibalism, and it had a positive effect on our evolution. I can't remember why anymore though.
Still. It's extremely gross.
Also unrelated: I watched the video completely, how come there were white people there? Also won't the tribe get sick like indians first did when European arrived?
Jaxon Jenkins
But those indians aren't related to the colonists.
Adrian Gonzalez
>But those indians aren't related to the colonists.
Yeah but somehow they still have some of the words that the colonists spoke. Also the natives languages in the XVII century due to intense portuguese and tupi presence developed a General Language (Língua Geral Brasílica) which was spoken by all tribes and had some variances among regions. Hence why they know some tupi words like kururu, peró, cayapó and some other while speaking a different stuff
Nolan Turner
"the tribe in your pic isn't the same as the tribe in the video" is the only explanation i can think of
Carson Morales
>I watched the video completely, how come there were white people there? Also won't the tribe get sick like indians first did when European arrived?
It's in Acre, a really poor state in North Brazil, also these guys are probably from the Brazilian government or some NGO to protect the natives and restore native culture (teach them the language and stuff). You can hear some children speaking another native language and also portuguese, also the short native fat guy with shorts trying to speak with the guys. Also there are white people everywhere in Brazil kek. Just some places with less and some other with more