'Lost tribe' not actually lost

Posted By Blake Hounshell Monday, June 23, 2008 - 2:27 PM Share

Remember that uncontacted tribe in Brazil? Turns out it was actually discovered in 1910.

UPDATE: Survival International complains about the coverage, saying, "The only people who ever claimed that the Indians photographed were ‘lost’ or ‘undiscovered’ were…. the press, despite the fact that
Survival has been campaigning for the protection of the many isolated Indian tribes on the Peru-Brazil border for more than twenty years."

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