What would you do it an airplane flew right over your home-and you'd never seen an airplane before.

These people had a reasonable reaction pains your whole body as intimi-dating color and shoot arrow as the flying intruder. The people flying the plane weren't there to hurt anyone, though. They just wanted to get a few photos of' this isolated Arnazonian tribe.

The tiny tribe lives deep within the rainforest.Though the Brazitlar government has known about the these people for many years, and says there are dozens more tribes like this one, the government has never contacted them. Now; with illegal logging creeping closer to this tribe's land, the government thought the best way to protect the group was to take pictures and prove to the world that someone lives in this patch of jungle.

Members of tribes like this one probably don't have immunity to the same viruses that the rest of us do. Contact by an outside group, even friendly contact, could bring in a. simple cold or flu virus capabie of wiping out the whole tribe. So these people are left isolated, for their own protection.As curious as we might be, we can't even learn their name.

-E.P.

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