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Filmmaker Angus Macqueen gains access to the Amazonian tribe that, until recently, was living in isolation from the outside world, and she discovers more about the tribe members and what finally brought them out of isolation....
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00:07Over 7 billion people now inhabit our Earth.
00:11But in the remotest corners of the planet, a few men and women still live in complete isolation.
00:18Untouched by modern civilization, many of these tribes live deep in the Amazon rainforest.
00:29Very occasionally, they are caught on camera.
00:36Now something astonishing is happening.
00:39Some of these hidden tribes are emerging from the forests and terrorizing local communities.
00:54There is a war in the jungle.
01:04Could these be the last days of the tribes that time forgot?
01:09People who show us what we once were.
01:14This man is one of them.
01:17He takes us to the heart of their fight for survival.
01:20We are fighting for the Earth.
01:23We can fight for a better life.
01:24We can fight for a better life.
01:51from deep in the rainforest on the Brazilian border with Peru a small group
01:57of men appeared in June 2014 the moment these isolated men and women first seek to join
02:12the outside world so-called first contact has almost never been caught on film
02:43this footage taken by a Brazilian anthropologist went viral
02:55the world marveled that such people still exist untouched indeed uncorrupted by our modern world
03:07the anthropologists struggled to find a common language they only really understood one word
03:13Shara which means good as the local inhabitants cower in fear the men ransack the village desperate
03:35attempts are made by a team of local anthropologists to prevent them
03:56the anthropologists know that the isolated tribes have no immunity to common viruses
04:02making objects and clothing a real danger
04:18these first moments of contact are fraught with risk
04:24the man in blue Carlos Morelos one of the world's leading experts in uncontacted tribes
04:30struggles to keep things under control
04:42it's nine months later
04:46Carlos Morelos the anthropologist who attempted to keep control that day
04:51returns on the eight-day boat journey upstream
04:56he's heading for the place where the first contact occurred
05:00this region here is the region here is the region here there is nothing here
05:06there is nothing here here if you take this direction here you will go to the coast of the Andes
05:12there is no one there is no one there is 700 kilometers here here there is only a lake
05:20so it is a place that is the only place that remains for the isolated to exist
05:28moreless has spent his life dealing with uncontacted tribes he wants to find out what brought these men out and
05:36whether this signals the end of humans living in total isolation
05:43the men came out at sympatia the last inhabited outpost on this river whose source is in the
05:50headwaters of the amazon it's on the northern edge of a reserve for isolated peoples the size
05:58of island that straddles the border between brazil and peru
06:04o invira nasce aqui o juruá nasce aqui e o madeiro o made deus nasce aqui é essa região que
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06:13isolados se concentraram mas até 1988 quando eu vim aqui para o invira não existia um branco
06:21nessa região nenhum população branco zero só tinha índios alados
06:34morelis arrives at sympatia home to a large tribal community who joined the outside world
06:41over a century ago
06:42e saíam bem ali quatro quatro só quatro rapaz foi bem só que o rio agora está cheio aqui era
06:56uma praia
06:56os índios saíram ali ó o rio tava seco aqui fica uma praça viu como é rasinho aí lá eles
07:03saíram na
07:04bêra ficar falando no seu game the men was speaking a language which relates to that of another local tribe
07:15but that day people barely understood each other their words have now been fully translated
07:22and they reveal the group were fleeing something terrible
07:34and they reveal the group were elimails we saw at home or they areCuidado
07:41oh wow
07:59Fish, fish.
08:02Fish.
08:05Fish.
08:06Fish.
08:06Fish.
08:07Fish.
08:09Fish.
08:14Fish.
08:15Fish.
08:16Fish.
08:16Fish.
08:16Fish.
08:16Fish.
08:17Fish.
08:17Fish.
08:18Fish.
08:18Fish.
08:20Fish.
08:20Fish.
08:21Fish.
08:28Fish.
08:31Fish.
08:48They live in a different way.
08:52They are what we have already been.
08:59Humanity today, in this globalisation, this crazy thing,
09:03suddenly there is a man who lives there in the forest.
09:17These first hours of contact were really tense,
09:21with the anthropologists constantly saying no.
09:38The day turned into an intricate dance of understanding and misunderstanding,
09:45particularly when Morelis and his colleagues attempted to sing back to them.
10:11In the end, 35 men and women emerge from isolation following the encounter filmed that day on the beach.
10:25Now, nine months later, Carlos Morelis moves on to their new settlement,
10:32a four-hour boat journeying upriver from where they first appeared.
10:40The 35 are settling under the protection of the Brazilian authorities.
10:47We are the first outsiders permitted to meet them,
10:51to find out what life was like in isolation,
10:55and what finally drove them out.
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11:24Nine months ago, this man lived his life in Greenland.
11:27..in complete isolation from the outside world.
11:44He was the leader of the group that sought contact in June 2014.
11:50His name is Sheena.
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12:28This rare piece of footage of a temporary encampment was shot deep in the rainforest,
12:33over the border, inside Peru.
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13:50Sheena and the other 34 now live under the protection of Funai,
13:55Brazil's federation for indigenous peoples.
14:12In the new home they are building on the riverbank, they are encouraged to live much as they
14:18did before, though Funai provides clothes, tools and medical help.
14:27The 14 men, 9 women and 12 children are part of the Sapanawa tribe.
14:33They speak a dialect related to local languages, which enables our translators to communicate.
14:43They are not encouraged to be able to determine what the language is , but it's important to think that
14:49it is worth the information.
14:50It's not funny, she is the major tree.
14:54It's an important thing to think about the wilderness and what they need is not to walk out of the
15:05village.
15:05It's not like the waves, they are walking around the village, not the village.
15:11Sheena came out with his wife Powo and her monkeys.
15:30The translators, such as Maria in the hammock,
15:34are vital to the process of transition.
15:41Sheena came through as she ages 2,000.
15:44She was also the First Lady of the Lollan.
15:45So I was born in honor of her to be a byad.
15:49And when she was born in honor of her,
15:54we heard her byad.
16:02She was born in honor of her.
16:05No, no, no, no.
16:07Sapa.
16:08Sapa.
16:09Iscara xiaroupa.
16:10Sau, xirate.
16:11Iscara xirare.
16:13Ah, thank you.
16:14Ah, and that's why they say they won't want to be naked.
16:18They say they'll want to be good.
16:22With clothes, all the things like the pan, the dishes to eat.
16:28Iscara xiarare?
16:29No.
16:30They want to learn.
16:32Iscara xiarare.
16:34Iscara.
16:35Carlos Morales wants to find out what their relationship with the outside world was before they came out.
16:43Saga, I don't want to.
16:47Saga, break the wall.
16:50Saga, break the wall.
16:50Saga, break the wall.
16:52Saga, break the wall.
16:56Saga, break the wall.
17:00Saga, break the wall.
17:01We all haven't seen it yet, just call it a lot.
17:05It'll be a little blank.
17:08Not this guy, by the way.
17:11No, that's it.
17:11What is it?
17:12What is it?
17:14We don't have to know.
17:17Come on.
17:18I'll let the squad know you'll see this.
17:25Come on.
17:26Come on.
17:27Come on.
17:29Come on.
17:48Oh
17:48The Sapa now measure time in terms of the Sun and the moon
17:52But they cannot count beyond ten
17:56Making it impossible to tell their age or even how long they live
18:01One daily more
18:03They're going to pray that sink on any more. He's my point look at it
18:07But the camera
18:10I know
18:11I'm sorry, but the
18:13Okay, it's a good dog. I'm not a party card. I'm not a party. I'm not a party
18:20Do you have to do the thing? Oh, do you have to know? Oh, mr. Oh, I told the trio
18:31They say we go to the same place after the death.
18:32He also thinks that the Braga will go to the same place after the death?
18:34The picture is like a place that is for the same place.
18:39The picture will look like this one.
18:44The picture checks the place, but it is for the real world.
18:50The picture checks the place there is a terrible place to see.
19:00Almost a year after their first contact it is clear that the memories of what drove them out of the
19:06jungle still haunt them
19:26It is clear that the memories of what drove them out of the jungle still haunt them
20:02THE FIRE
20:11He killed his father, two women, two boys, two boys.
20:21He killed his father, two boys, two boys, two boys, two boys, two boys, two boys.
20:35Mareles believes the massacre took place on the Peruvian side of the border,
20:39where control is much weaker.
20:41In Peru, here you have.
20:44So the massacres, the deaths, were here.
20:47And that's why they don't want to go there anymore.
20:49They want to be here, so they feel more protected.
20:53From the Brazilian side, until now,
20:56you know, from the Peruvian side,
20:59you know very well that the National Park is full of people,
21:03the Reserva Murunau is full of people,
21:05of ladders, of traffickers, of cocaine, etc.
21:10The Sapanar struggle to identify which whites attacked them.
21:14They think it may have been the Peruvian military,
21:17but there's no way of knowing.
21:18I'm not sure what's going on.
21:48building trust is complicated and can be dangerous over a hundred funai agents
21:55have been killed by uncontacted Indians in the past 20 years
22:18even Morelis is lucky to be alive 10 years ago he took an arrow through his neck
22:25there is always a danger in others
22:27yes, there is a certain danger
22:31but normally it is always after contact
22:34at least the most of the people who died in the funai were after contact
22:39the most
22:40and the most of the cases, why did it happen?
22:46because of confusion
22:48the Indians didn't know how to distinguish who was from the funai and who was not
22:52before the contact, all white was enemy
22:59and he may think that you are giving a gift to him
23:01to be relaxed and to kill him
23:05a old man one day said
23:06you are not giving things to us
23:08to be stupid and then kill us
23:10he asked that
23:14you were just
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23:18knowing what
23:19I should not wish
23:20to be
23:21to be
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23:24all the
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23:31to be
23:31They all talk it is stupid
23:40Violence towards the Amazonian tribes has a long history and not simply from the Spanish conquista doors
23:49In the early 20th century the rubber industry took over huge swathes of the Amazon basin
23:58They turned some tribes into slave workers
24:05The rubber companies sent out hunters to capture or exterminate tens of thousands of others
24:14Some estimate 90 percent of all indigenous indians were wiped out
24:20The sap an hour may not be a lost tribe after all
24:25For all these years they've been in hiding
24:30The shadow of the audio
24:34What look I had it
24:36What look I had did this color
24:38But to me to I do ask our guitar
24:42To do it to the who picked a shot a key what would happen to that area?
24:47How do I get to the shock and the surely?
24:51The whole told way the water hard to surely I thought I thought the show what?
24:55The water hard to surely have a lot of people
25:02For over a hundred years these tribes have survived down these rivers
25:07But in the past few years it is not just the sap an hour who have been seen
25:12Over the border in Peru there have been more extraordinary sightings and confrontations
25:19Which may yet lead to war
25:29This huge forest reserve that stretches over 30 000 square miles
25:35Is home to the majority of the last uncontacted people on the planet
25:40Entry from outside is prohibited
25:45The sap an hour indians who emerged in brazil came out on its northern boundary
25:51Hundreds of miles to the south in peru
25:54Just months later another isolated tribe has been causing chaos
26:06In the past few months
26:12These are refugees returning home after their town of monte salvado was invaded by the mashko pirro
26:19an uncontacted tribe who have a fearsome reputation.
26:58Over a hundred of these legendary nomadic warriors appeared on the far side of the river in a huge display
27:05of power.
27:13After ransacking the empty town, the Mashko Pirro melted back into the jungle.
27:19No one knows how many there are, what brought them here, or if they will return.
27:32The inhabitants of Monte Salvado feel helpless and terrified.
27:45They are not allowed by law to defend themselves. They must retreat.
27:50But after the recent appearance of the Mashko Pirro, the villagers say they refuse to run away again.
28:23Ernesto, one of the leaders in Monte Salvado,
28:26the Mashko crosses the river into their territory to check that the Mashko have really left the area.
28:36It seems that they, with the sound of the ground, hear them, hear them, hear them.
28:46That's why they can never find them in their camp.
28:55They are already escaped. They are well hidden.
28:58If you are passing, they are well hidden.
29:04The laws on contact mean little is known about the Mashko.
29:09Are they flourishing, or are they under attack from outside?
29:15Are they serious? Yes, it is.
29:22They are not too bad.
29:23They are afraid of me?
29:24Yes, right.
29:24They are afraid.
29:25They are afraid.
29:27They are afraid.
29:27They both fear.
29:29They both face fear.
29:29Not only us, they both.
29:31And not only us.
29:32Both, they have been sent to us.
29:40The Mashko Pirro may have left the area of Monte Salvado,
29:43but further downriver, a group of about 30 have been entering another town
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30:34Locals are afraid.
30:36In the spring of 2015, for the minister and his wife, fear turned to tragedy.
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31:19When I came running on the way, I found my son here.
31:25He was thrown down.
31:30When I turned to him, I was bathed with blood.
31:37When I came to the back, I came to the back.
31:58In response to the killing, the villagers armed themselves,
32:01sought out the Mashco-Piro camp and destroyed their bows and arrows.
32:08The Peruvian Ministry of Culture sends a team in an attempt to prevent full-scale conflict breaking out.
32:17Led by Luis Felipe, they face more villagers in revolt.
32:38Convention insists the Mashco-Piro should be left alone in their isolation.
32:43But on the ground, realities are making this increasingly difficult.
33:13A few miles upriver, Luis Felipe,
33:17Felipe has set up a post with a translator and a doctor,
33:21in an attempt to keep the Mashco away from Shippatiyari.
33:29The Mashco that killed the boy are camped on the other side of the river.
33:34The killing is just part of the wider crisis.
33:38Mashco-Piro and other tribes are making various forms of contact.
33:46Some have undoubtedly been driven out by loggers or drug traffickers.
33:52But the team now believes something more fundamental might be happening.
33:56A kind of teenage rebellion.
33:58What is the cause of the population?
34:01That they are not damage,
34:02as they were doing to their grandparents.
34:06In the time of the caucho, when they decide to intern at the forest.
34:11I think it is that.
34:14That's why we do not see old people.
34:16I think that the teenagers keep up in the forest because they still fear us.
34:21But when the young people get closer to the boats and not having more conflicts, they
34:28have lost a bit of fear towards us.
34:30That's why I think they are also coming out.
34:34Without contacting the Mashko Piro directly, the team cannot control the situation.
34:41There are two problems.
34:42One is that these contacts with people and this exposition
34:46is exposed to them to have a disease.
34:49Once there is a disease, if you don't have a relationship,
34:53if you don't know them, you will not be able to save them from an epidemic.
34:56The other issue is that they create a social conflict
34:59with the indigenous people on the side, that is Chipetiari,
35:03which has become already violent.
35:05This is a bomb of time, right?
35:13The law is there to protect the tribes
35:15and to leave the decision on whether to make contact to them.
35:22But this means the translator, Rommel,
35:26can't easily find out how they've responded to having their weapons destroyed.
35:33He crosses the river into Mashko Piro territory
35:36to check on any recent activity.
35:45He knows where's this country.
35:49That's all.
35:58He goes ahead and Zac 빨리.
36:00We start to hang out every mission to the Mediterranean land and get up to the Mediterranean.
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36:09It's been aueness,
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36:147,298 dead.
36:15You saw Multiple people that we trafficked but there.
36:17Here we go.
36:34These are the old walls of them.
36:39They are not very big.
36:46They are about 5 cm long.
36:51They are about 45 cm.
36:57Here they walk. Here they are.
37:00These are the ones who walk.
37:02They go and they come.
37:06How far do you think they are?
37:09They are not very far.
37:12Do you think they can know that we are here?
37:17Right now, if they are close, they look at us.
37:26Yes.
37:27These trees tell us.
37:30He says to say that everything is fine.
37:34Every cat.
37:40Do you think they can be close?
37:43Yes.
37:45Do you think it's better to go?
37:47Or how do you see it?
37:50Yes.
37:52Let's go then.
37:58Rommel worries that since losing their bows and arrows,
38:02the Mashko have been reduced to hunting with stones.
38:07Before the killing, there were 30 Mashko in the group.
38:11Recently, the team has seen only five.
38:20Just as they are preparing to leave the post,
38:23three Mashko-Piro appear on the other side of the river.
38:28What's up?
38:31Now.
38:36This one has a hurt.
38:40No, I can't see it.
38:42Oh, all these animals look fine.
38:44They don't want to have the applicators.
38:46Ah, take advantage of these dogs.
38:53There's no beans, everyone's taking them away.
38:58With only three mash go on the beach. They are concerned. It could be a trap
39:11Okay, so no, so friends
39:28The law states they shouldn't cross the river to make direct contact
39:34But Rommel sees an opportunity to win trust and calm the situation
39:46I don't think that it's in the comments that all the others
39:51The que hacemos
39:54Yo, you is the right now. Yeah, the team know that these first moments of contact are the most dangerous
40:13The translator Rommel and the government doctor have been lured over the river to treat an injured mash go pillow
40:19woman for the first time
40:22They have no idea if the rest of the group are just behind the tree line
40:28They take our small camera
40:36You like
40:41Oh
40:48Well, it is tiny one the tiny is what I can get
41:13The little boy tells Rommel there is another injured woman behind the trees.
41:33The little boy tells Rommel there is another injured woman behind the trees.
41:37The little boy tells Rommel there is another injured woman behind the trees.
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42:03Providing modern medicine to uncontacted people breaks every rule in the anthropological book,
42:10potentially creating a dependence on the outside world.
42:16The head of the mission, Luis Felipe, worries from the other side of the river.
42:21He is gambling that with trust they will be able to control the actions of the Mashko Pirou.
42:27It is the first time that there is a tension in the health of the state.
42:56Rommel has previously left a gift of bananas hidden on the beach.
43:10It is also important, right?
43:13They know other people, they have another kind of trust.
43:18They know that now they are already learning what the doctor comes to help, right?
43:23They just want to heal them.
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45:14This is Shiremaku, Sheena's friend, also caught on camera,
45:19emerging from total isolation ten months ago.
45:25He's bringing a new girlfriend and her son from another tribe
45:28back to the home they are building.
45:32He met her in Simpatia, the town upriver, where he first emerged.
46:029-year-old Kurikuri quickly feels at home with our camera.
46:15For Carlos Morelis, the recent emergence of the tribes is part of an irreversible process.
46:23Why do the Indians have to be in a stone wall, all the time with a pen,
46:30singing and dancing?
46:35No matter how long we want Indians to be immutable, you know?
46:42They never change.
46:44Of course, if they know the world, they will change.
46:46It's dangerous?
46:48Yes.
46:49Does it?
46:50Does it?
46:51Does it?
46:51Does it?
46:52Does it?
46:53Does it?
46:54Does it?
46:55It's like it.
46:58It's like life.
47:01I see it.
47:03I don't see any problem.
47:05After 20, 30 years, there's a sapan-aula, reading, writing, studying,
47:09in Rio Blanco, at the University of Acre.
47:13What's the problem?
47:17Does it?
47:18Does it?
47:19Does it?
47:20Does it?
47:21Does it?
47:23Does it?
47:24Does it?
47:24Does it?
47:27Does it?
47:27But the fittest do not always survive.
47:30After a few days, Shiramako's girlfriend has to leave the camp.
47:37He's away from the camp.
47:40After a few days, there's a sign of the camp.
47:40When they arrived, they told them that she met a woman.
47:44I never gave up, she told them about her.
47:50I don't want to see the people here, but if you are not there, I'm not there.
47:56I can't go, I can't go, I can't go, I can't go.
48:00I can't go.
48:02I can't go, I can't go, I can't go.
48:09I can't go, I can't go.
48:12Without the form of shriaksh.
48:15We should have been used to the beautiful land.
48:31Without the reward of such hriaksh,
48:34we should have been able to do the same.
48:34you're able to have a great rest of your life.
48:36We will have the wonderful work of your life.
48:36In the process of living in the world,
48:37you've made a great work of your life.
49:09Satsang with Mooji
49:34Satsang with Mooji
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