Lost Tribes, also known as Uncontacted Peoples or Isolated Peoples are communities of people who have remained isolated from global civilization, either by chance or by choice. Brazil has the highest number of uncontacted tribes, with the government listing 77, Peru has 15, and India has 2 on islands. There are several uncontacted tribes in central Africa and Malaysia and about a dozen in Indonesia and New Guinea.
Brazil and Peru have established laws that prohibit people from interacting with the uncontacted tribes and trespassing on their lands, by setting up areas that are reserved for these tribes, but there are loop-holes in these polices loggers and miners take advantage of to make use of the land the tribes use. A main reason these laws are in place is because of the uncontacted peoples immune systems. They have not been exposed to many diseases that Europeans brought when coming to the Americas and have no natural immunity to fight these diseases and their whole tribe could be wiped out if they contracted one of these diseases. Another reason is that uncontacted tribes are considered dangerous and even hostile to outsiders.
The uncontacted tribe of Mashco-Piro in Peru are considered dangerous and should be avoided. This tribe chose to isolate themselves from outsiders. Around the 1900s rubber companies in the Amazon massacred many Mashco-Piro tribes people, and since then they have become weary and hostile of outsiders. Most uncontacted tribes choose to remain isolated, and those that do integrate into modern society end up being at the bottom of the social ladder.
There are many movements to leave unconctated tribes alone in order to protect them from disease and to preserve their way of life. These movements prevent the deforestation of the tribes land by companies and governments.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncontacted_peoples
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24090-how-many-uncontacted-tribes-are-left-in-the-world.html#.Um2xOnAWJRw
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/isolated-peruvian-tribe-tries-make-contact-sparking-standoff-6C10962822
http://www.uncontactedtribes.org/
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