Sadly, this contact for the sake of television will probably be the death sentence of the tribe, as many such uncontacted tribes don't have resistance to diseases like the flu, measles, chicken pox, pneumonia, etc., which can end up killing over 50% of the tribe. <a href="http://www.uncontactedtribes.org/articles/3106-uncontacted-tribes-the-threats" rel="nofollow">http://www.uncontactedtribes.org/articles/3106-uncontacted-t...</a>
Do you realize that this is a hoax?
That tribe is known for decades.<p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-grann/the-truth-about-the-lost_b_172910.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-grann/the-truth-about-th...</a>
Actually, it's not that "Indian law" applies there, it's that the indians are not considered capable to stand trial. If a white man were to kill the reporter, the law would certainly apply, no matter where they were in Brazil.
It seems to me these journalists just wanted a bit of reality TV. Now the tribe's culture and language will (presumably) be wiped out, and they'll be absorbed into the mainstream. What a careless, thoughtless thing to do.
Before I read the article I assumed this was all about the hung EC2 instances in the Great Virginia Datacenter Outage.<p>I need to get out of the house more.