Story Behind 'Lost Tribe' Photos Revealed


	Story Behind 'Lost Tribe' Photos Revealed

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/51fc74f0-d419-4eac-a136-75431e98aada/58B2392B-D646-4CF2-A265-B7867CBD5968/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.aol.com/story/_a/story-behind-lost-tribe-photos-revealed/20080622183409990001?icid=100214839x1204629558x1200204223" href="http://news.aol.com/story/_a/story-behind-lost-tribe-photos-revealed/20080622183409990001?icid=100214839x1204629558x1200204223" style="font-size: 11px;">news.aol.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.aol.com/story/_a/story-behind-lost-tribe-photos-revealed/20080622183409990001?icid=100214839x1204629558x1200204223">It wasn't so much a hoax as a publicity stunt. The famous photos of the "lost tribe" in the Amazon forest are real, but the remarkable story behind them is not</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.aol.com/story/_a/story-behind-lost-tribe-photos-revealed/20080622183409990001?icid=100214839x1204629558x1200204223"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.aol.com/img/A4A8B90C-67BD-49A0-9DD6-1910C8E99B03" alt="One of Brazil's last remaining uncontacted tribes; Thursday 5/30" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.aol.com/story/_a/story-behind-lost-tribe-photos-revealed/20080622183409990001?icid=100214839x1204629558x1200204223"><DIV>Last month, Jose Carlos Meirelles claimed that the Amazon warriors painted in red with arrows pointed at his aircraft were from an "undiscovered tribe" along the Brazilian-Peruvian border that had never been in contact with other humans.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.aol.com/story/_a/story-behind-lost-tribe-photos-revealed/20080622183409990001?icid=100214839x1204629558x1200204223"><DIV><B><A target="_blank" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/21/amazon" linkindex="225">The Observer</A></B> on Sunday reported that Meirelles confessed that his group, the Brazilian Indian Protection Agency, otherwise known as Funai, had known the whereabouts of the tribe, flew over the group to take pictures and published the photos to bolster a campaign to protect endangered tribes in the area from the logging industry.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.aol.com/story/_a/story-behind-lost-tribe-photos-revealed/20080622183409990001?icid=100214839x1204629558x1200204223"><DIV>"When I saw them painted red, I was satisfied, I was happy," he said. "Because painted red means they are ready for war, which to me says they are happy and healthy defending their territory."</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/58B2392B-D646-4CF2-A265-B7867CBD5968/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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