Uncontacted peoples

States containing uncontacted peoples

Uncontacted people, also referred to as isolated people or lost tribes, are communities who live, or have lived, either by choice or by circumstance, without significant contact with globalised civilisation.

Few peoples have remained totally uncontacted by modern civilisation, and almost all current groups are in danger of being unwillingly contacted. Indigenous rights activists call for such groups to be left alone in respect of their right to self-determination. Some have chosen to make contact either exceedingly difficult or dangerous for those trying to reach them, such as the Sentinelese.

The majority of such communities are located in densely-forested areas in South America and New Guinea. Knowledge of the existence of these groups comes mostly from infrequent (and often violent) encounters by neighbouring tribes, and also from aerial footage. A major problem with contacting isolated people is that they will lack any immunity to common diseases, which can be devastating to a closely-contained population with no natural immunity.

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Andaman Islands

Two tribes of the Andaman Islands, belonging to India, have sought to avoid contact with the outside world.

The Sentinelese continue to actively and violently reject contact. They live on North Sentinel Island, a small and remote island which lies to the west of the southern part of South Andaman Island. They are thought to number around 250 (median estimate). Based on helicopter surveys of the island, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami does not appear to have affected the Sentinelese adversely.

It is estimated that they have lived on their island for 60,000 years. Their language is markedly different from even other languages on the Andamans, which suggests that they have remained uncontacted for thousands of years. They are thus considered the most isolated people in the world, and they are likely to remain so, because India abandoned attempts to make contact.

Another Andamanese tribe, the Jarawa, live on the main islands. They rejected all contact, but following the completion of a trunk road traversing their territory in 1997, some have begun emerging from the forest to beg for food. They are thought to number 300 persons.

Vietnam

The Ruc people, when first "discovered" by North Vietnamese soldiers during the Vietnam War, were hunting-gathering tribes, dwelling in caves of eastern Quang Binh province. Since then, the government has made many attempts to relocate them.

Oceania

Australia

Main article: Pintupi Nine

In 1984, a group of Pintupi people who were living a traditional hunter-gatherer life were tracked down in the Gibson Desert in Western Australia. For the first time, they encountered people from European-Australian society. They are believed to have been the last uncontacted tribe in Australia.

New Guinea

Large areas of New Guinea are yet to be explored by scientists and anthropologists due to a lack of safety.

The Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua in the island of New Guinea is home to an estimated 44 uncontacted tribal groups. Isolated tribes have been reported also in the eastern Indonesian islands.

North America

Mexico

The Lacandon of Chiapas, near the border with Guatemala, were the last known isolated people in North America. They were contacted in 1924.

United States

Ishi, a Yahi, is believed to be the last Native American in Northern California to have lived most of his life completely outside the European American culture. In the year 1911, he emerged from the wild near Oroville, California, leaving his ancestral homeland in the foothills near Lassen Peak.

South America

Bolivia

As of 2006, the presence of five uncontacted groups was confirmed in Bolivia; three more uncontacted groups are believed to exist. The groups whose presence has been confirmed are: the Ayoreo in Kaa-Iya National Park, the Mbya-Yuqui in the Yuqui Reservation and Rio Usurinta (most of the Yuqui are now contacted; only a few families remain uncontacted), the Yurakare in Santa Cruz and Beni, the Pacahuara in the Chacobo reservation, and the Araona in the Araona Reservation. The presence of other groups, such as the Toromona and Nahua in Madidi National Park, has yet to be confirmed.

Name	Pop (Est)	Location	Commentary
Sinabo/Kapuibo (Nahua)	under 200	Between the lower Beni and the lower Yata	Pano language. Related to the Chakobo. Some sources question their existence.
Yanaigua	100–200	Between the Rio Grande and Upper San Miguel	Pano according to some; more likely Tupi–Guarani related to the Yuqui. Mainly hunter-gatherers. Live on the Guarayos forest reserve.
Yuqui	100	Between Upper Ichilo and Upper Yapacani	Tupi–Guarani language. Small uncontacted group of Yuqui. Mainly hunter-gatherers. Live in Amboró National Park.

Brazil

On January 18, 2007, FUNAI reported that it had confirmed the presence of 67 uncontacted tribes in Brazil, up from 40 in 2005. With this reported increase, Brazil has surpassed the island of New Guinea (divided between Indonesia and Papua New Guinea) as the region having the highest number of uncontacted tribes (however, numbers are not available for Papua New Guinea).

Brazil has the most uncontacted groups in the world. The seven Terras Indígenas (TI) (Reservations) exclusively reserved for isolated people are:

• TI Alto Tarauacá in Acre – Various tribes. (Isolados do Alto Tarauacá)
• TI Hi-Merimã in Amazonas – Himerimã. (Isolados do médio Purus)
• TI Massaco in Rondônia – Sirionó (Isolados do rio São Simão)
• TI Igarapé Omerê in Rondônia – Kanoe do Omerê & Akuntsu
• TI Rio Muqui in Rondônia – Isolados das cabeceiras do rio Muqui (Given as Miqueleno-Kujubim in the table).
• TI Rio Pardo in Mato Grosso and Amazonas – Isolados do Rio Pardo (Tupi–Guarani–Kawahibi).
• TI Xinane isolados in Acre – Unidentified.

Uncontacted groups living in other people's TIs are:

• TI Awá in Maranhão – Awá.
• TI Nivarura in Amazonas. First Contacted by Xionity missionaries in 2010.
• TI Avá-Canoeiro in Goiás – Avá-Canoeiro.
• TI Arara do Rio Branco in Mato Grosso – Isolados da margem esquerda do médio Rio Roosevelt/Rio Branco.
• PI Aripuanã in Rondônia – Isolados da margem esquerda do médio Rio Aripuanã, Isolados do Río Pacutinga/Aripuanã, Isolados do Médio Rio Branco do Aripuanã.
• TI Bujiwa in Amazonas. (First contacted in 1943).
• TI Caru in Maranhão – Awá (Isolados do igarapé Água Branca).
• TI Inãwébohona in Tocantins – Avá-Canoeiro (Isolados da Mata do Mamão).
• TI Kampa e Isolados do Rio Envira in Acre – Isolados do rio Envira.
• TI Kaxinawa do Rio Humaitá in Acre – Unidentified.
• TI Koatinemo in Pará – Unidentified.
• TI Menkragnoti in Pará – Mengra Mrari.
• TI Raposa Serra do Sol in Roraima – Unidentified, Discovered in 2006. Near Monte Roraima and Monte Caburaí (2 to 4 km from Brazil-Venezuela-Guyana tri-junction).
• TI Mamoadate in Acre – Mashko (Isolados do Alto Iaco).
• TI Jaminaua-Envira – Isolados das cabeceiras do rio Jaminaua. (Part of Papavo)
• TI Riozinho do Alto Envira in Acre – Isolados do Riozinho/Envira. (Part of Papavo)
• TI Rio Teá in Amazonas – Four bands of Nadeb(?): Cabeceira dos rios Waranaçu e Gururu, Médio rio Tiquié, Cabeceiras dos rios Curicuriari e Dji and Cabeceiras do rio Teá. Two more bands nearby in Eneiuxi (Médio rio Eneiuxi) and Urubaxi (Cabeceira do rio Urubaxi e Bafuanã) are possibly Nedeb (Given as Nadeb in the table).
• PI Tumucumaque in Pará – Akurio.
• TI Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau in Rondônia – four to six groups of isolated people, Including Isolados das cabeceiras do rio Muqui, Isolados do rio Cautário, Cabeceiras do rio Água Branca and Jururei.
• TI Vale do Javari in Amazonas – seven groups of isolated people: Cabeceiras de Santana e igarapé Flexeira, Korubo, Isolados do Coari-Río Branco, Isolados do rio Quixito, Isolados do Rio Jandiatuba, Isolados do Rio Jutaí e Isolados dos rios Jaquirana/Amburus.
• TI Waimiri Atroari in Amazonas – Formadores do rio Alalaú (Piriutiti) and Formadores do rio Jatapu (Karafawyana or Chamakoto).
• TI Xikrin do Cateté in Pará
• TI Araribóia in Mato Grosso – Isolados dos rios Buriticupu e Taruparu.
• TI Cuminapanema – Zo’é.
• TI Tanaru – Only one individual, the "Tanaru Isolated Indian." Remaining members of the tribe were massacred or wiped out by disease.

Name	Pop (Est)	Location	Commentary
Apiaká	over 100	Mato Grosso – Between Lower Juruena and Lower Teles Pires	Tupi–Guarani. Isolated Apiaká group. Were massacred some time ago.
Apurinã	over 50	Amazonas – Upper rio Sepatini	Arawak.
Aruá	75 at most	Rondônia	Tupi–Mondé Between the rios Mequens and Colorado Living over both the Rio Branco I.T. and the Guaporé B.R. Rio São Miguel Outside reserves. Area invaded by loggers. Frequent fighting.
Avá-Canoeiro	30	Northern Goiás and Bananal Island, in Tocantins.	Tupi–Guarani. Small groups of highly mobile hunter-gatherers.
Guaja	120 [already counted among the known group]	Maranhão – Scattered throughout the western part of the state	Tupi–Guarani. Small groups of highly mobile hunter-gatherers (even after contact). They have their own I.T. but also move in and out of several other reserves.
Ingarune	around 100	North Pará – Rio Cuminapanema and Paru de Oeste	Karib. Related to the Kachuyana. Existence confirmed by the Poturuyar (recently contacted Tupi–Guarani). They live within the latter's I.T.
Kanibo (Mayo)	120–150	Rio Quixito, Javari Basin, Amazonas	Probably Pano. Several unsuccessful official contacts. Occasional contacts with loggers.
Kaniwa (Korubo)	300	9 malocas in Between Lower Ituí and Lower Itacuaí, Amazonas	Pano. Occasional contacts. Hostile.
Karafawyana and other isolated Carib tribes.	400–500	Four locations in Roraima and north Pará. Source of the Jatapu. Rio Urucurina, tributary of the Mapuera. Rio Kafuini, tributary of the Trombetas. Upper Turuna, tributary of the Trombetas.	Mostly Cariban. Karib, Parukoto-Charuma sub-group. Related to the Waiwai. Some individuals visit Waiwai communities without warning the authorities. This is how they obtain their metal tools. Partly in the Trombetas-Mapuera I.T.
Karitiana	50–100	Upper Rio Candeias, Rondônia.	Tupi–Arikem. Identified by the small group that has been contacted.
Katawixi	50	Upper Rio Muquim, tributary of the Purus, Amazonas.	Isolated language. One community only has been located.
Kayapó do Rio Liberdade	over 100	Lower Rio Liberdade, northern Mato Grosso.	Gé. Identified by other Kayapó towards whom they are hostile.
Kayapó-Pu'ro	100	Lower Rio Curuá, South Pará.	Kayapó. Group which has broken away from the Mekragnoti since 1940. Outside Kayapó I.T.
Kayapó-Pituiaro	200	Rio Murure, South Pará.	Kayapó. Group which has broken away from the Kuben-kranken since 1950. Partly outside Kayapó I.T.
Kayapó-Kararao	around 50	Lower Rio Guajara, South Pará.	Kayapó. Group which has broken away from the Kararao. Struggles are part of their traditions.
Kulina	unknown	Rio Curuça, tributary of the Javari, Amazonas.	Arawan. Small isolate communities belonging to the big Kulina group.
Maku (Nadeb)	around 100	Uneiuxi and Urubaxi Basins, Amazonas.	Isolated language. Isolated elements of Maku groups that have already been contacted. Hunter-gatherers.
Mamaindé	50–100	Upper Rio Corumbiara, Rondônia.	Isolated language. Isolated group of Nambikwara. A no-entry zone was allocated and then cancelled under local pressure. Recently massacred.
Hi-Merimã	1,500	Riozinho, tributary of the Cuniuã, Purus Basin, Amazonas.	Arawan(?). Their area has recently been declared protected.
Mayoruna	200–300	3 locations in Amazonas: Rio Batã, source of the Javari. Rio Pardo. Between the Pardo and middle Javari.	Pano. Small isolated communities of the large Mayoruna group.
Miqueleno (Cujubi)	?	Upper Rio São Miguel, Rondônia	Isolated Chapakura language. Area invaded by loggers. Recently massacred.
Nereyana	around 100	Rio Panama, headwaters of Paru do Oeste, North Pará.	Karib. Perhaps more closely related to the Kachuyana than to the Tiriyo.
Pacaás Novos (2) Oromawin sugroup	around 150	Serra dos Pacaás Novos, Rondônia. (2) Source of the Rio Formoso, Rondônia.	Isolated Chapakura language. Isolated groups belonging to the major Pacaás Novos group. Included in the Uru-eu-wau-wau I.T. (2) Neighbouring one of the Pacaás Novos I.T.
Papavo Supergroup, which includes: Mashco/Harakmbet Culina Amahuaca Yawanahua	over 400	Acre (Scattered over a single large territory) (1) Rio Breu, headwaters of the Upper Jurua. (2,3,4) Between the sources of the Envira and the Muru, and Igarapé Xinané, tributary of the Purus, overflowing into Peru.	Many isolated communities belonging to four distinct groups. Struggling is part of their traditions: reciprocal hostile contacts with the Kampa (whom they plunder), and peaceful ones with the Kulina; they plunder the loggers' encampments. (1) Isolated language – On the extractivist reserve of Alto Jurua. (2,3,4)-(2) Arawan, (3,4) Panoan – Two I.T. have been set up for them.
Pariuaia	over 100	Rio Bararati, tributary of the Lower Juruena, Amazonas.	Probably Tupi–Kawahib, Tupi–Guarani. Have refused all contact since 1930.
Piriutiti	100–200	Rio Curiau, Amazonas.	Related to the Waimiri-Atroari (Karib). Some live in, others outside, the latter's I.T.
Sateré	unknown	Rio Parauari, tributary of the Maués-açu, Amazonas.	Tupi. Communities that split away from the Sateré-Maué a long time ago.
Tupi–Kawahib (Piripicura)	200–300	Between the Madeirinha and Roosevelt rivers, northern Mato Grosso.	Tupi–Guarani. A no-entry zone has just been allocated for them.
Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau	300	Serra dos Pakaás-Novas, Rondônia.	Tupi–Guarani. There remain over 3 uncontacted groups. Several hostile encounters with gold-seekers and loggers. All are included in the vast Uru-eu-wau-wau I.T.
Wayãpi (Yawãpi)	100–150	Upper Ipitinga, between the Jari and the Paru do Leste, northern Pará.	Tupi–Guarani. Group which formerly broke away from the Southern Wayãpi.
Yakarawakta	20–30	Between the Rios Aripuanã and Juruena, Mato Grosso Norte.	Tupi–Guarani. Probably an Apiaka sub-group.
Yanomami	300	Amazonas Upper Marauia Between the Demini and the Catrimani	Yanomami. Within the I.T. Isolated communities; probably outside the I.T., but within the Rio Branco National Park.
name unknown	around 100	Between the Upper Amapari and Upper Oiapoque, Amapa.	Unspecified language family. According to the Southern Wayãpi, a group that formerly broke away from them. According to the Northern Wayãpi, one of their former enemy groups, the Tapüiy.
name unknown (Isolados do Jandiatuba)	300	Between the Upper Jandiatuba and the Itacuaí, Amazonas.	Maybe a Katukina group.
name unknown (Isolados do São José)	300	Igarapé São José, tributary of the Itacuaí, Amazonas.	Seems to be a group distinct from Isolados do Jandiatuba.
name unknown	unknown	Igarapé Recreio, Cruzeiro do Sul municipality, Upper Juruá, Acre.	Panoan(?)
name unknown (Isolados do Igarapé Tueré)	unknown	Igarapé Tueré, tributary of the Itacaiúnas, Pará.	Tupi(?)
name unknown (Isolados do Arama e Inaui)	around 100	South of Rio Inauini, Purus Basin, Amazonas.
name unknown (Isolados do Igarapé Umari)	unknown	Igarapé Umari, tributary of the Ituxi, Amazonas.
name unknown (Isolados da Serra do Taquaral)	unknown	Serra do Taquaral, source of the Rio Branco, Rondônia.

Of the known uncontacted peoples of Brazil, according to the above, 16 live in the Brazilian state of Amazonas, 7 in Rondônia, 8 in Pará, 2 in Acre, 3 in Mato Grosso, and one each in Amapá, Maranhão, Roraima and Tocantins. Keep in mind some migrate between state lines.

Colombia

Despite ongoing paramilitary conflict, Colombia is a country which offers maximum protection for isolated groups. Carabayo-Aroje is the one such group, living in the Parque Nacional del Rio Pure. It is not known whether any Yari (another tribe believed to be uncontacted) survives now. Nukaak Maku were contacted in 2003 and 65% of the tribal members died of disease. Around two or three dozen Nukaak still remain isolated.

Name	Pop (Est)	Location	Commentary
Carabayo	150	Amazonas – Source of the Purué River, north of the Putumayo River	Unattested language, perhaps Yuri. Overstepping the Brazilian border. Hostile.
Guaviare Macusa (Now Nukaak)	300	Guainia – Between the Guaviare River and the Inírida River	The Nukak language is unclassified. It might be one of the Nadahup languages Small mobile groups of hunter-gatherers. Recently contacted. Now about 50 remain uncontacted. Population fell from 800 to 300 in just one year.
name unknown (Isolados dos Rio Yari)	unknown	Caqueta – Upper Rio Yari	Karib or isolated language? Karijona or Witoto sub-group. Live in the Chiribiquete national park.

Ecuador

It is not known whether any Tagaeri survives now in Yasuni National Park. In the 1990s when a member of Tagaeri was contacted by a lone Huaorani hunter, he told him that Tagaeri numbers only a handful of members and are in danger of being wiped out by their hostile neighbours – the Taromenane. Since then there have been no more peaceful contacts. The Tagaeri hunter also mentioned about another group, the Oñamenane who numbered five or six individuals and there was one more tribe – the Huiñatare. In 2003 about 30 Taromenane were massacred by the Huaorani in retaliation for the killing of a Huaorani hunter. In the same year 14 Tagaeri were killed by loggers. In April 2006 a logger was speared to death by the Taromenane (in 2005 another one was also killed by the same tribe, whose body was later found embedded with 30 spears and his face unrecognizable). In the same month a further 30 Taromenane and 10 loggers were killed in conflicts according to leader Iki Ima Omene (of Huaorani). In Jan 2007 the president of Ecuador declared the Southern part of Yasuni a forbidden zone (7,580 square kilometers) in order to protect the uncontacted people. At the same time CONAIE reported that there are a total of 150–300 Taromenane (divided into two sub-tribes) and 20–30 Tagaeri surviving uncontacted there. The Oñamenane and Huiñatare are extinct. Ecuador continues to be the country with the largest number of uncontacted people killed since 2000.

Name	Pop (Est)	Location	Commentary
Huaorani	100–200	Oriente – Between the Upper Napo and Upper Curaray	Isolated language. Segment hostile to the Waorani. Threatened by the advancing front of oil prospecting.

Guyana

Name	Pop (Est)	Location	Commentary
Wapishana	100	Between the sources of the Essequibo River and the Tacutu River; Serra Acarai	Arawak. Isolated segment of the Wapishana group. They refuse all contact.
name unknown	around 100	Between the Upper Courantyne and the New River	Karib. Maybe related to the Tiriyo.

French Guiana

Name	Pop (Est)	Location	Commentary
Wayãpi	100	Between the Eureupoucine and the Upper Camopi	Tupi–Guarani. Group that broke away from the Wayãpi of Upper Oyapock around 1900. They refuse all contact.

Peru

There are now five reserves in the Peruvian Amazon meant to protect the lands and rights of isolated peoples. Most of the reserves are currently entered by illegal loggers and petroleum companies with legal concessions to work in those lands, although their activities jeopardize the lives of the isolated populations.

After Brazil (43 uncontacted groups confirmed) and New Guinea (Papua New Guinea and Iriyan Jaya), Peru has the largest number of uncontacted tribes in the world. Some of the groups in Peru are in danger of extermination by loggers and oil development. As of 2006, the locations where uncontacted groups are confirmed to be living are as follows:

1. Amarakaeri Communal Reserve: Groups are Yora and other unidentified Panoan tribes.
2. Zona Reservada Biabo Cordillera Azul: Cacatibo.
3. Parque Nacional del Manu: Mashco-Piro, uncontacted bands of Matsiguenga, tribes belonging to Yura family and unidentified tribes.
4. Reserva Communal Asháninka, Reserva Communal Matsiguenga and Parque Nacional Otishi: uncontacted bands of Ashaninka.
5. Parque Nacional Alto Purús and Reserva Communal Purús: Yaminahua, Chitonahua, Curajeño and Mashco-Piro-Iñapari.
6. Reserva Territorial del Estado: Kungapakori, Nahua, Matsiguenga, Nanti, Krineri and other unidentified tribes.
7. Reserva Territorial del Murunahua y Chitonahua: Murunahua, Chitonahua.
8. Reserva Territorial del Isconahua: Isconahua.
9. Reserva Territorial del Mashco-Piro: Various tribes belonging to Mashco-Piro such as Mascho-Piro-Iñapari.
10. Reservas territoriales del Cacataibo: Cacataibo.

Name	Pop (Est)	Location	Commentary
Morunahua	150		This group is probably related to the group that used to be called Papavo in Brazil.
Parquenahua	200		Pano. They live in the Manu national park.
Pisabo	200		Pano.

Suriname

Name	Pop (Est)	Location	Commentary
Akulio	50	Watershed between Suriname and Brazil. Between the sources of the Itani and the Jari	Karib. Last uncontacted segment of Akulio. They refuse all contact.

Venezuela

Name	Pop (Est)	Location	Commentary
Yanomami	300–400 (already included in the total for Yanomami populations)	Amazonas – Upper Siapa	Communities in contact with other known segments of the ethnic group, but they refuse all contact with the outside. They live in the Parima Tapirapecó National Park.

Paraguay

There remain perhaps as many as 300 Totobiegosode who have not been contacted; they belong to the Ayoreo ethnicity, which numbers around 2,000. In the 1990s the main group attempting to contact them was New Tribes Mission. In 1979 and 1986, the New Tribes Mission was accused of assisting in the forcible contact of nomadic Ayoreo Indians, whose unsuccessful attempts to remain in the forest led to several deaths. Others died soon after being brought out of the forest. The incident forced some Ayoreo to flee to Bolivia. The main threat currently are the ranchers. In 2004 a group of 17 Ayoreo-Totobiegosode previously uncontacted made contact with the outside world and decided to settle down (five men, seven women and five children, according to Survival). It was not known whether there were any more isolated Ayoreo left in the jungle. But in the first week of September 2007, another uncontacted band of Ayoreo-Totobiegosode were spotted by loggers in the Western Chaco. Ayoreo are believed to be the last uncontacted Indians south of the Amazon basin. In 2008, a Paraguayan ruling blocked a Brazilian company from clearing Totobiegosode to make room for cattle ranches. Although the forest is still being cleared illegally.

Popular culture

Uncontacted tribes remain a fascination in Western culture. Recently, the idea of tour operators offering extreme adventure tours to specifically search out uncontacted peoples has become a controversial subject. A BBC Four documentary in 2006 documented a controversial American tour operator who specializes in escorted tours to "discover" uncontacted peoples in West Papua similar to the BBC's own adventure in Papua New Guinea to make their 1971 documentary A Blank on the Map in which the first contact in over a decade was made with the Biami people.

Uncontacted tribes have also emerged in works of literature and film.

• The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle released in 1912. It depicts early human hominids in the jungle of South America.

• A Russian novel written in 1924, Sannikov Land, describes an island off the Siberian coast populated by an isolated Siberian tribe of Onkilon (another name for non-fictional Yuit thought to be extinct at the time), followed in 1973 by a Soviet movie The Sannikov Land.

• The 1980 film The Gods Must Be Crazy dealt with a fictitious uncontacted tribe in South Africa. The tribe enjoy idyllic lives until they are set into chaos simply by contact with an object (a Coca-Cola bottle) from modern society. One of the tribe's elders (played by a !Kung man) sets out to throw the bottle off the "edge of the earth" to save his tribe.

• The 1985 film The Emerald Forest features a Western boy kidnapped by a previously uncontacted Amazonian tribe called the "Invisible People".

• The 1986 film The Mission about the experiences of a Jesuit missionary in 18th century South America with the Guarani people, staring Robert De Niro and Jeremy Irons. This took place near the present-day borders of Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. The land on which the Jesuit missions were located had unknowingly been transferred to the Portuguese (Brazil) who allowed slavery, from the Spanish (Argentina/Paraguay) who did not.

• In the 1991 film At Play in the Fields of the Lord (based on the novel of the same name), an American pilot parachutes from an airplane into the Amazon where he encounters and lives with a previously uncontacted tribe.

• The 1995 film Last of the Dogmen tells the story of a group of uncontacted Cheyenne discovered living in a remote part of Montana.

• In 2006, the docudrama End of the Spear recounts the story of Operation Auca, in which five American Christian missionaries attempted to evangelize the Huaorani people of the jungles of Ecuador.

See also

• Indigenous peoples
• Indigenous peoples of the Americas
• List of ethnic groups
• Terra nullius
• Stateless society

External links

• Survival International
• Indigenous Peoples Issues & Resources
• Cultural Survival