August 30, 2022
"The last surviving member of an isolated Amazonian tribe died this month.... Known in Brazil as the 'man of the hole,' he had lived alone for nearly 30 years after the rest of his tribe was killed..."
"... in attacks by ranchers and other tribes during the 1980s and ’90s. The Brazilian government had monitored him for 26 years and said he had repeatedly rejected attempts at communication.... The Indigenous man’s body was found... lying on a hammock in a hut during a routine monitoring visit by the government. There were no signs of violence or struggle... The man, whose tribe and ethnicity are unknown, was called the man of the hole because of the nine-foot trenches he dug at the center of his homes. The reason for the holes is unknown.... In 1998... documentary filmmaker Vincent Carelli [tried f]or six hours... to coax him out... The man peeks out from the hut, carefully points an arrow at the camera crew and then retreats...."
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My friend Tiffany claims women don’t need men. The opposite is true. Men don’t need women.
Article is behind the paywall, but the comments are not.
Comment 1: "The country (Brazil) is now a net polluter and one of the major reasons for global warming."
Response to comment 1: "I thought it was cow farts and cars causing global warming! Do you mean if we just declare war on South America, turn their land into a giant World Nature Preserve, we can go back to eating hamburgers and driving ICE vehicles? Why didn't anyone tell us this before?"
Made me laugh.
"Attacks by ranchers"
I repeatedly see people online all the time and elsewhere making this a racial thing between 'indios' and white Brazilians. It is not. 99% of the time the 'ranchers' are other indios, usually more modern tribes who may not have been contacted terribly long ago themselves (maybe a generation or two).
These modern tribal 'indios' are also the ones doing 99% of the clear cutting/burning in Amazonas. I found out about a lot of this when I visited Manaus many years ago.
He wanted to be left alone, and yet, people who think they are better than him, wanted to study him instead. Poor guy. People suck.
Considering the insanity of the modern smart phone era, apps for everything, psychotropic drugs, drag queen shows for the kiddies…kudos to this guy for pointing an arrow at the intruder.
But look at the thirst for monitoring by the government. They even track one lonely man in the middle of the jungle. Imagine all the information they have on you.
The real question is, was this guy a Trump supporter? They’ll be debating that on Twitter today.
"Last surviving member of an isolated Amazonian tribe . . . the man, whose tribe and ethnicity are unknown."
Headline and body text snippets don't seem logically consistent. If you don't know his tribe, you can't say he's the last of them. Maybe he was the last aboriginal in that area, but last of THAT tribe, which we don't know its identity or geographic range, you can't say that, WaPo.
And since that tribal identity seems to be at the center of the article, I wouldn't call this a quibble.
Is the WaPo advertising for copy editors, or is that out of fashion these days?
It turns out the WHO found him about a year ago and mandated that he get the vaccine. He appears to have died of 'unknown causes'.
Airbnb is already on the case and offering up his hut as a 'Charming Bungalow for 2 in the woods'. Includes a combination latrine/garbage dump conveniently located in the living room.
Gusty Winds: "The real question is, was this guy a Trump supporter? They’ll be debating that on Twitter today."
The real questions are will this man's death be added to the latest New Soviet Democratical Party's Articles Of Post-Presidency Sham-peachment against the BadOrangeMan and will the number of GOPe and NeverTrump articles supporting the next sham-peachment be less than 892?
Personally, I am taking the over.
As long as it's Indio on Indio, white people have clean hands in the genocide of 100-million souls.
I've gotta say, all this Indio talk has me hankering for an ice cold beer on the Mayan Riviera.
30,000 humans starved to death yesterday, and the day before, and the…..
They’re hiding in plain sight so not much of a challenge I guess….
@Howard
"As long as it's Indio on Indio, white people have clean hands..."
No kidding Howard! I feel the same way about black-v-black violence in Chicago or Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution.
It's so nice to have someone on this forum that feels the way I do, finally. I've gotta say, all this genocide talk has me hankering for some Hennessy on the Navy Pier!
Indigenous violence with native overlap a la South Africa, Chicago, LA, southern border, etc.
Some (50+) holes had sharpened spikes at the bottom and are thought to have been traps for animals he hunted, such as wild boar. (And ranchers, I would think)
Evidence found over the years in the area also suggests he planted maize and manioc and collected honey as well as fruits such as papaya and bananas.
The man, whose tribe and ethnicity are unknown,
This raises a serious question.. HOW THE HELL DO THEY KNOW HE'S THE LAST OF HIS TRIBE?
because he's shy? because he doesn't speak Any known language?
How many people are on the street corners of NYC that are shy and don't speak any known language?
Maybe (just MAYBE) The guy was just bat shit crazy?
There's an Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer joke here somewhere...
'As long as it's Indio on Indio, white people have clean hands in the genocide of 100-million souls.'
Considering the estimates for North American Indians is barely one million at the time of Columbus, 100 million is pure bullshit.
Not isolated enough to not have a steel ax head.
many such still in India : Andaman and Nicobar Islands
he man, whose tribe and ethnicity are unknown."
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are we talking genealogy or choice of pronouns?
My theory is that the guy was a nut job and would have been so regarded by whatever tribe he came from.
HOW THE HELL DO THEY KNOW HE'S THE LAST OF HIS TRIBE?
Good question. One, with diversity [dogma], it is impossible to know if he is the end of a line or a novel variation of persistent lines. Two, this wouldn't be the first time that scientists, experts declare an extinction, only to [re]discover them outside of their limited perspective. Oh, and despite a climate of handmade tales, the polar bears and [unPlanned] cubs are fat and gay, fit, even.
Seriously though, aren't ranchers just another tribe?
We were capitalizing indigenous now?
That is sad as Hell. Talk about epic loneliness. It'd be interesting to know the beliefs of his people. Perhaps he held himself apart, not out of fear, but because he believed outsiders to be unclean or immoral.
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