Concern, suspicion and racism
The outsider’s regular view of uncontacted tribal individuals is a combination of concern, suspicion and racism. The tribes’ efforts to guard their lives and houses, typically stemming from recollections of violent persecution prior to now, are interpreted by these dwelling close to them as wanton aggression and the savagery of the ‘uncivilised’.
‘The Korubo Indians are animals, not human beings. They kill and eat all who enter their lands, together with different Indians. Steer clear of them if you wish to return alive…. I favor to shoot the savages than allow them to kill my spouse and youngsters.’
Brazilian colonist
‘You might odor the place they [the Jarawa] had stood. They odor so dangerous, don’t clear themselves. Now we have to enter the forest for cane and leaves. We take canine, they go forward and in the event that they odor Jarawa they arrive operating again.’
Andaman islands colonist, India
‘Indians are worse than animals. They’re not even good to eat.’
Brazilian rancher
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‘If I used to be in authority, I’d exterminate all of the Yanomami. I would depart one alive to exhibit to the general public in a zoo.’
Brazilian resort proprietor
‘No citizen of India might be allowed to reside within the wilderness or as savages after greater than fifty years of this nation’s independence.’
Indian civil servant on the Sentinelese
‘The natives of this Territory are mean-souled, thieving rotters, and training solely provides them added crafty.’
Australian settler, Papua New Guinea
‘I wish to give the “Pig Folks” (Ayoreo-Totobiegosode Indians) the possibility to listen to the Bible, ’trigger in the event that they don’t, they go to hell and endure everlasting damnation.’
New Tribes Missionary
‘The Yanomami are devoid of any intelligence, wandering round bare and breeding like animals.’
Brazilian normal
‘They’re animals, they reside fully bare identical to animals.’
Colonist speaking about nomadic Indians in Colombia
