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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.
01:20Who wants to?
01:22I want to?
01:23You are a brave man.
01:24You are a brave man.
01:26You are a brave man.
01:26Get out of your place.
01:31A heart of your mind.
01:32A heart of your mind.
01:34A heart of your mind.
01:51From deep in the rainforest on the Brazilian border with Peru, a small group of men appeared
01:57in June 2014.
02:09The moment these isolated men and women first seek to join the outside world, so-called
02:15first contact, has almost never been caught on film.
02:43This footage taken by a Brazilian anthropologist went viral.
02:55The world marvelled that such people still exist, untouched, indeed, uncorrupted by our
03:02modern world.
03:07The anthropologists struggled to find a common language.
03:11They only really understood one word, Shara, which means good.
03:28As the local inhabitants cower in fear, the men ransack the village.
03:35Desperate attempts 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, making
04:03objects and clothing a real danger.
04:26the world's leading experts in uncontacted tribes struggles to keep things under control.
04:42It's nine months later.
04:46Carlos Mireles, the anthropologist who attempted to keep control that day, returns on the eight-day
04:53boat journey upstream.
04:56He's heading for the place where the first contact occurred.
05:00And this region was still in the region.
05:04But here, there is nothing.
05:06If you take this direction, you'll get to the continent.
05:11You'll get to the continent of the Andes and there's nobody.
05:14700 km here.
05:17And here there is only a lake.
05:20So it's the only place that remains for the prisoners to exist.
05:53It's on the northern edge of a reserve for isolated peoples, the size of island, that straddles the border between
06:01Brazil and Peru.
06:04The Invira is born here, the Juruá is born here, and the Made de Deus is born here.
06:11It's in this region where the isolated peoples concentrated.
06:15But until 1988, when I came here to Invira, there was no white people in this region.
06:22No white population.
06:24Zero.
06:25There were only isolated peoples.
06:34Morelis arrives at Simpatia, home to a large tribal community who joined the outside world over a century ago.
06:46If they were out of there, four.
06:49Four?
06:50Only four, guys.
06:53You can see, the river is full now.
06:55This was a beach.
06:57They were out of there.
06:59The river was dry here.
07:00You can see how it's dry.
07:03They were out of there.
07:06They were out of there.
07:07They were talking, whatever.
07:10The men were speaking a language which relates to that of another local tribe.
07:15But that day, people barely understood each other.
07:19Their words have now been fully translated.
07:22And they reveal the group were fleeing something terrible.
07:26Is there still any way treads?
07:30That was my saying for theocracy, which is what I want to hear?
07:40No.
07:41Look, there's my name for a couple.
07:43First left, haven't you?
07:45While I have to get one.
07:45Oh husband?
07:47Poor.
07:47You've been sitting there so many times in the middle.
07:48of the standard but nothing. Marianne,
07:50I had to keepए the staff here
07:50and her McK variations at him. My sisters asked
07:52him to do begin, where isnamNG
07:54family. There was a noodle
08:11Here we are, here we are.
08:15We protect here.
08:17We're here.
08:18We're here.
08:19This is a fish.
08:21Here, here, here.
08:23This is our fish.
08:48They live in a different way.
08:52They are, I don't know, what we've already done.
08:59Humanity today, in this globalisation, this madness,
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.
09:39The day turned into an intricate dance
09:41of understanding and misunderstanding,
09:45particularly when Morelis and his colleagues
09:47attempted to sing back to them.
10:11In the end, 35 men and women emerge from isolation
10:15following the encounter filmed that day on the beach.
10:25Now, nine months later,
10:28Carlos Morelis moves on to their new settlement,
10:32a four-hour boat journeying upriver
10:34from where they first appeared.
10:40The 35 are settling under the protection
10:43of 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.
10:58..
11:24Nine months ago, this man lived his life
11:27in complete isolation from the outside world.
11:43He was the leader of the group that sought contact in June 2014.
11:50His name is Sheena.
11:56One by his servants decided to get back only
12:02and call the neighborhood
12:03from the outside of Newark home
12:06so that the child would be able to get back
12:06and give him the�� travelers
12:09After all, of course,
12:09even after all!
12:10And wurde medidas were protected
12:12he could live in terror
12:16so that he could live it
12:18in their home
12:20the hippopotamian
12:28This rare piece of footage of a temporary encampment
12:31was shot deep in the rainforest over the border inside Peru.
12:38Frightened locals work out it was in use recently.
12:52Sheena describes the realities of living in the forest without tools, clothing or hammocks.
13:51which doesn't look good at all
13:52Other 34 now live under the protection of Funai,
13:55Brazil's federation for indigenous peoples.
14:13In the new home they are building on the riverbank,
14:16they are encouraged to live much as they did before.
14:20Though Funai provides clothes, tools and medical help.
14:27The 14 men, nine women and 12 children
14:30are part of the Sapanao tribe.
14:33They speak a dialect related to local languages
14:36which enables our translators to communicate.
14:49What is known for their own sheep?
14:54They have no sheep, but them are not.
14:56They are young.
14:57The sheep, they are young.
15:01They are young.
15:05They are young.
15:11Sheena came out with his wife Powo,
15:13and her monkeys the translators such as Maria in the hammock are vital to the
15:35process of transition me for me were about to be making out my machine about the
15:53machine I cut up the grass out you get up well you see also now she not for the
16:00mechanism of making out use of makeup.
16:03I cannot buy the newspaper and think about it
16:09and it is that the man says that she won't want more
16:18I want to be very well with the différent Amen
16:22With clothes, other things, like a panela, a plate to eat.
16:28What do you want to do?
16:29No, I want to learn how to do it.
16:34Carlos Morelis wants to find out what their relationship
16:38with the outside world was before they came out.
16:55Okay.
17:07How are you?
17:09What is that?
17:12What is that word?
17:20Let's go.
17:26Look, look.
17:27Come here.
17:28Come here.
17:31You get it.
17:34They've got you here.
17:37Let's do it.
17:37Come here, let's go.
17:38Let's go after this.
17:40Let's go.
17:48The Sapa Nawa measure time in terms of the sun and the moon, but they cannot count beyond 10,
17:56making it impossible to tell their age or even how long they live.
18:01When he dies?
18:03Ask him, when he dies? Where is he?
18:06He dies.
18:07He dies.
18:13He lives in the sea.
18:27He dies.
18:29He dies.
18:31He dies.
18:31Does he think that Braga will going to the same place after the death of a man?
18:34He dies later on.
18:41MUSIC IN THE LINE
18:42MUSIC IN THE LINE
18:42MUSIC IN THE LINE
18:44MUSIC IN THE LINE
19:00Almost a year after their first contact,
19:03it is clear that the memories of what drove them out of the landscaping
19:06of the jungle still haunt them.
19:38. . .
19:38I love you.
20:16He killed his father, his two women, his two children, his two boys.
20:21He killed his father.
20:25He killed his father.
20:27He killed his father.
20:35Morellis believes the massacre took place on the Peruvian side of the border,
20:39where control is much weaker.
20:42Here you have.
20:44The massacres that I saw, the deaths, were here.
20:47That'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,
20:57this side of 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 cocails, etc.
21:10The Sapanao 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.
21:18He is trying to protect the specifically to protect the people.
21:22He's trying to protect themselves.
21:22Who's the emperor?
21:27He's trying to protect them.
21:32They don't want to protect them.
21:39He has to protect them.
21:39They don't want to protect them.
21:40They're keeping them.
21:42They save their lives.
21:47They're keeping them right.
21:48And he's making them out.
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
22:27there's a certain danger
22:31but normally it's always after the contact
22:34at least the most people who died in the funai was after the contact
22:39the most
22:42and the majority of the cases, why were they?
22:46because they were confused, the Indians didn't know how to distinguish who was from the funai and who was not
22:54before the contact, all white people were enemies
22:59and they can think that you're giving a gift to them to be relaxed and to kill them
23:05a old man one day said, you're not giving things to us
23:08for us to be stupid and then they killed us
23:10he asked that
23:40violence towards the amazonian tribes has a long history
23:44and not simply from the spanish conquistadors
23:49in the early 20th century the rubber industry took over huge swathes of the amazon basin
23:59they turned some tribes into slave workers
24:05the robber 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 sapanaa may not be a lost tribe after all
24:25for all these years they've been in hiding
24:45I don't know.
24:58I don't know.
25:29This huge forest reserve that stretches over 30,000 square miles is home to the majority of the last uncontacted
25:38people on the planet.
25:40Entry from outside is prohibited.
25:45The Sapanao Indians, who emerged in Brazil, came out on its northern boundary.
25:51Hundreds of miles to the south in Peru, just months later, another isolated tribe has been causing chaos.
26:12These are refugees returning home after their town of Monte Salvado was invaded by the Mashko Piro, an uncontacted tribe
26:22who have a fearsome reputation.
26:29This is my house.
26:33How have they entered? Look, they're breaking the malle.
26:40This is the Lidia Grande.
26:44That's what the not-contacted people come from this beach, all this beach in the summer, right here.
26:51Here's what we give.
26:53Here's what we give.
26:58Over a hundred of these legendary nomadic warriors appeared on the far side of the river in a huge display
27:05of power.
27:12After ransacking the empty town, the Mashko Piro 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.
27:41They are not allowed by law to defend themselves.
27:48They must retreat.
27:50But after the recent appearance of the Mashko Piro, the villagers say they refuse to run away again.
27:56And now, what we have to always expect, and as I say, for me, it's good if they don't want
28:06to answer us, we will see how to defend our territory.
28:11I know that our community will not let them leave the war, but if they continue the war, we will
28:18do it again.
28:23Ernesto, one of the leaders in Monte Salvado, crosses the river into their territory to check that the Mashko have
28:31really left the area.
28:36It seems that they, with the sound of the land, they hear, they know, they know.
28:46That's why they can never find them in their territory.
28:54They already escape.
28:56They're well hidden.
28:58You're well hidden.
28:58If you're passing, they're well hidden.
29:10You're well hidden.
29:15I know that the wall isалиy.
29:16You're right, right?
29:17Yes.
29:22They're afraid, isn't it?
29:23Yes, you're right.
29:23They're afraid.
29:24They're afraid.
29:25Both of them, both of us, both of them have afraid.
29:29It's not just us, and not just them.
29:32Both.
29:33We're going to meet.
29:40The Mashko Pierrot may have left the area of Monte Salvado,
29:44but further downriver, a group of about 30
29:47have been entering another town on the edge of the reserve.
30:08And these are all thekorb grub.
30:12They are honourable to reach the city of Shibuki.
30:17The Shibuki is there while the Shibuki is being organized.
30:22We have to reach the center of this island.
30:27We have to reach the center of the Shibuki.
30:29Skanda can keep us a matey on think I was like hero needy locals are afraid in
30:37the spring of 2015 for the minister and his wife fear turned to tragedy it was
30:46much for Siembrick venia aka I stay and on the key thing the cutter
30:53there was much going to depend it a system and I see a spirit and the
30:59car but and the gente que viene en los cuando hemos venido a esta vaca todo
31:05huella o sea sabemos que estaba esperando escondido en el palo
31:11para que nadie de repente escondiendo estrada listo para picar
31:19si cuando he venido yo corriendo en el camino y le encuentra a mi hijo acá estaba echado así
31:27y estaba así tirado boca abajo y cuando yo le volteaba todo está bañado con sangre
31:37porque ya te quería aclarar que nadie te quería aclarar
31:40y
31:58con
31:58in response to the killing the villagers on themselves sought out the masca o piro camp
32:04and destroyed their bows and arrows the Peruvian Ministry of Culture sends a
32:11team in an attempt to prevent full-scale conflict breaking out led by Luis Felipe
32:18they face more villages in revolt
32:38convention insists the mash go Pero should be left alone in their isolation but on
32:44the ground realities are making this increasingly difficult
33:14a few miles upriver Luis Felipe has set up a post with a translator and a doctor
33:21in an attempt to keep the mash go away from Shippity Ari the mash go that killed
33:31the boy are camped on the other side of the river the killing is just part of
33:37the wider crisis mash go Pero and other tribes are making various forms of
33:43contact some have undoubtedly been driven out by loggers or drug traffickers but
33:52the team now believe something more fundamental might be happening a kind of
33:57teenage rebellion
34:01okay yeah no se les hace daño no como se les hacía a sus abuelos
34:06no o sea en la época del caucho cuando se deciden internar en el en el bosque y yo
34:11pienso que se son o sea que por por eso es que no vemos viejos yo pienso que los
34:17mayores se mantienen en el bosque porque aún nos tienen miedo entonces pero a los
34:22los jóvenes al acercarse a los botes y no tener mayor mayor mayores conflictos han
34:28perdido un poco el temor hacia nosotros por eso pienso yo que también están saliendo
34:34without contacting the mash go pero directly the team cannot control the
34:39situation
34:41tienes dos problemas ahí no uno es que estos contactos con gente y esta
34:46exposición los expone a ellos a tener una enfermedad una vez que haya esta
34:50enfermedad si no tienes un relacionamiento si no los conoces no
34:54vas a por salvarles de una piel el otro tema es que crea un conflicto un
34:59conflicto social con el pueblo indígena del costado que es que tiene que hacer
35:03tornado ya violento esto si es una bomba de tiempo
35:07the law is there to protect the tribes and to leave the decision on whether to
35:17to make contact to them
35:22but this means the translator rommel can't easily find out how they've
35:27responded to having their weapons destroyed
35:33he crosses the river into mash go piro territory to check on any recent activity
35:39and
35:48and
35:51and
35:52and
35:52and
35:53and
36:05and
36:08and
36:09and
36:10and
36:34This is the old trees of them.
36:39They are very good.
36:40They are very big.
36:45They are still about 5 cm long.
36:51They are about 45 cm.
36:57From here they walk.
36:59Here they are.
37:00These are the ones who walk.
37:02They go and they come.
37:06How far do you think they are?
37:08They are not far away.
37:12Do you think they can know that we are here?
37:17If they are close, they look at us.
37:27This bird tells us.
37:31Whatever thing is okay.
37:33Any bird.
37:40Do you think they can be close?
37:43Yes.
37:45Do you think it is better to go?
37:48Or how do you see it?
37:50Yes.
37:52Let's go then.
37:53Yes.
37:54Yes.
37:59Rommel worries that since losing their bows and arrows, the 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, three Mashko Pirro appear on the other side of the river.
38:29This cat sí 음.
38:37I know the rest of us are getting killed every single naive.
38:39It looks like a village.
38:40But not?
38:40It's not we, it's not on the corner.
38:42There's one that says that it's here.
38:44When you're they want you to eat!
38:46Ah, come on upturn you!
38:48What?
38:52What is this?
38:53Ah, it just came over.
38:58With only three mash go on the beach they are concerned it could be a trap
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
39:56Yeah, the team know that these first moments of contact are the most dangerous
40:12The 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
40:29They take our small camera
40:36Healy
40:40Oh
40:40Oh
40:57Oh
40:58Well, it is tiny what it is what the key
41:01It was a little bit better better. It's a little kid. I don't care about what this
41:09Oh
41:12This is
41:13The little boy tells Rommel there is another injured woman behind the trees
41:29On the ground, on the ground, on the ground and there are a few conditions over the ground,
41:31we do have to go through the ground,
41:32and the ground is on the ground and where we can do the ground.
41:33There are some natural things that they can do.
41:36Our hands are suple.
41:40The ground is suple.
41:42And the ground is suple.
41:43We're going to go through the ground.
41:45We're going to go through the ground.
41:52I'm going to take a look at it.
41:54Good night.
41:55Good night.
41:57Good night.
41:58Good night.
42:03Providing modern medicine to uncontacted people
42:06breaks every rule in the anthropological book,
42:10potentially creating a dependence on the outside world.
42:16The head of the mission, Luis Felipe,
42:18worries from the other side of the river.
42:22He's gambling that with trust they will be able to control
42:25the actions of the Mashko Pirou.
42:28Well, it's the first time that there's a tension in health
42:34from the state, right?
42:56Rommel had previously left a gift of bananas hidden on the beach.
43:10It's also important, right?
43:13They know other people, they have another kind of trust.
43:18They know that now they're going to learn
43:20what the doctor comes to help, right?
43:23They just want to heal them.
43:24Oh shit.
43:27Salut!
43:51Whistling
43:53It seems a deep fear of the outside world has kept these peoples isolated for so long and that that
44:01fear is coming to an end.
44:08Equally, the reality of their existence ends our romantic dreams of noble savages still living in the Garden of Eden.
44:35Hundreds, maybe a thousand Mashko-Piro and other people still roam these rainforests, isolated from a world with which they
44:45have been at war for generations.
44:51But the 35 Sapanao who emerged over the border in Brazil seem to be coming to terms with their new
44:58life.
45:03Funai's protection has ensured that for the first time, contact has not led to any deaths from illness.
45:14This is Shiramaku, Sheena's friend, also caught on camera, emerging from total isolation ten months ago.
45:25He's bringing a new girlfriend and her son from another tribe back to the home they are building.
45:32He met her in Simpatia, the Taonop River, where he first emerged.
45:37.
45:41.
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 the Indians have to be in a stone ring,
46:29all the time singing and dancing?
46:35No matter how long we want Indians to be immutable, you know?
46:41Never change.
46:44Of course, if they know the world, they will change.
46:47Is it dangerous?
46:48Yes.
46:50Is it possible?
46:51Yes.
46:52Is it possible?
46:53Yes.
46:53Is it possible?
46:54Yes.
46:55Yes.
46:55But that's how it is, my friend.
46:59That's how it is.
47:01I see it like that.
47:03I don't see any problem.
47:04After 20, 30 years, we'll be able to read, write, study,
47:09in Rio Branco, at the University of Acre.
47:13What's the problem?
47:17Who doesn't change, who doesn't adapt, die, die!
47:26But the fittest do not always survive.
47:30After a few days, Shire Mako's girlfriend has to leave the camp.
47:35The son of Kansan, he went to the mato in the morning,
47:40and when he came, he told me to meet his wife.
47:43He was like a churchman.
47:46He was like a churchman.
47:49He was like a churchman.
47:51We got to pray the village people.
47:56I died for his walk.
48:00Let's go.
48:31That's correct, yeah.
49:12That's correct, yeah.
49:37That's correct, yeah.