Peruvian government will try to contact the Indians for the first time
Peru's government will try a first-time contact with an Amazonian tribe living in isolation in the jungle. The goal is to ease tensions with neighboring villages after an attack with bow and arrow in May.
According to Reuters, the Mashco Piro tribe is emerging from the forest and interacting with occupants of other areas. Experts try to understand the reason for this behavior. According to the deputy minister of Culture, in recent years, the Indians were seen seeking machetes and food outside the region where they live in the Manu National Park in southeastern Peru.
The Peruvian government prohibits contact with the Mashco Piro and most isolated tribes because the immune system of these Indians have little resistance to common diseases. Some tourists are not intimidated and provide food and clothing to the Indians. Despite the impediment, there is no penalty provided by law for those who approach the isolated communities.
The body representing the indigenous peoples of Peru, FENAMAD, disagrees with the government's idea. According to the federation, the interaction can bring undesirable effects such as the actions that decimated tribes in the past. Officials say, however, that the contact is not forced and that there will be no attempt to change the culture of the people.
The leader of the proposed action, Luis Felipe Torres, points out that the Indians are trying to make contact with the world.
- We can no longer pretend that they are not trying to make some kind of contact. They have the right of it.
The interactions of the Mascho Piro were not always peaceful. In May, a tribal group killed another Indian from the Machiguenga community of Shipetiari. In 2011, another man was killed and wholesale Ranger with arrows.
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