Immutable life through 20,000 years of the Amazon forest tribe

Pictures of Brazilian photographer Ricardo Stuckert reveal a part of the "alienated" life of an Indian tribe in the Amazon rainforest.

"There are still people in the middle of the 21st century who are unrelated to the civilized world, maintaining their ancestral lifestyles 20,000 years ago. That really gives a very intense feeling," Ricardo Struckert said. feeling again when accidentally caught tribal minority in the Amazon rainforest.

Struckert went to Acre state (northwest Brazil) in early December to record images of Brazilian indigenous tribes.On December 18, his helicopter met a storm near the Peruvian border, so he was forced to fly around, accidentally helping the whole group find the unknown Indian tribe.They have a population of about 300 people, living around the upper reaches of the Humaitá and Enriva rivers (Acre state, northwestern Brazil) in large huts made of straw, called maloca.

After discovering the helicopter, initially, the tribe's members seemed panicked and shot their names at the plane, but they gradually "showed more curiosity than fear".

Also on the flight with Mr. Struckert, José Carlos Meirelles, expert from the Brazilian Indian Research Foundation (FUNAI), affirmed the shooting was "a sign of healthy resistance " with the meaning: "Leave them I'm fine. Don't bother . "The Meirelles has more than 40 years of experience of indigenous tribes.

This tribe lives nomadically, living in large huts made of straw, which can hold 80-100 people (called maloca) and move the living space in a period of about 4 years.Not only that, they also manufacture steel into axes, machete . to reclaim and cultivate agriculture.Tribal life is quite prosperous thanks to abundant food resources.

Bang Acre has strict forest protection policies and indigenous inhabitants, creating favorable conditions for ethnic minorities to live.However, illegal logging groups, gold digging, drug smuggling, etc., operate close to the Peruvian border still threatening this community life.

"When the living space is encroached upon by the loggers or gold miners, the fate of the tribe will end. They can disappear completely from the earth without us knowing anything , " said Mr. Meirelles. newspaper.Many minority tribes in the Amazon rainforest have been exterminated for the same reasons.

Ricardo hopes his photo book, Norios Brasileiros, will be published to "awaken curiosity and moral values ​​for future generations."In the picture is a complex and mysterious drawing on a person's body in a tribe.

A long house of tribal residents, this is what attracted Stuckert's attention when he looked down from the plane.

"That experience deeply touched me. We live in an era when humans have walked on the moon, but there are indigenous people living in Brazil in the way mankind has built up since For tens of thousands of years, " the Brazilian photographer said of the" encounter "surprise with the mysterious tribe living deep in the Amazon.