Green Options » Peter Matthiessen http://greenoptions.com/tag/peter-matthiessen Posts tagged 'Peter Matthiessen' Fri, 30 May 2008 04:05:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Previously Uncontacted Tribe Photographed for First Time Near Brazil-Peru Border http://ecoworldly.com/2008/05/30/previously-uncontacted-tribe-photographed-for-first-time-near-brazil-peru-border/ http://ecoworldly.com/2008/05/30/previously-uncontacted-tribe-photographed-for-first-time-near-brazil-peru-border/#comments Fri, 30 May 2008 04:05:13 +0000 Levi Novey http://ecoworldly.com/2008/05/30/previously-uncontacted-tribe-photographed-for-first-time-near-brazil-peru-border/ Tribe in Amazon

Just like in Peter Matthiessen’s classic book At Play in the Fields of the Lord, the gut reaction of several tribal members living in a remote area of the Amazon Rainforest was to shoot arrows at what was most likely the first plane they had ever seen passing by. You can see this yourself in one of the amazing photographs taken recently by the Brazilian government’s office of Indian Affairs.

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