Uncontacted Indian tribe found in Brazil's Amazon - Internati...
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- Abo46n2 on 2007-06-02 - Tags anthropology , brazil , kayapo , ksuanth , metyktire , southamerica
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The Metyktire tribe, with about 87 members, was found last week in an area that is difficult to reach because of thick jungle and a lack of nearby rivers some 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) northwest of Rio de Janeiro, said Mario Moura, a spokesman for the Federal Indian Bureau, or Funai.
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The tribe is a subgroup of the Kayapo tribe, and lives on its 4.9-million-hectare (12.1-million-acre) Menkregnoti Indian reservation, Moura said.
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Uncontacted tribes are usually discovered when loggers and ranchers encroach on their territories.
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Moura said anthropologists no longer attempt to contact those groups, but instead demarcate the land and wait for them to make contact.
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