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Who they are: The Korubo or head clunkers are among many Indigenous Peoples Of Brazil . This tribe lives in the Amazon River Basin in Brazil. Contacts with the tribes: It is believed that a dispute between a small group of about 20 members and the main tribe of about 300 members caused the two bands to separate. The main tribe has not yet been contacted while the smaller band of Korubo has been contacted. They were first contacted in 1999 by Brazil's FUNAI agency an agency that deals with Native Americans in Brazil. National Geographic wrote an article about them in it's August 2003 edition called ''After First Contact''. More recently, The Smithsonian magazine wrote an article about the same tribe called ''Out of Time'' in it's April 2005 edition. Both of these articles can be found in the archives of these magazine's websites. The Korubo are one of the last peoples on Earth not to have been influenced by modern day society as they have remained in total isolation before they were contacted. Many other tribes in the Amazon have been contacted in the last quarter century and have adopted a more modern life, even though they retain aspects of their own culture. Culture of the tribe and FUNAI's involvement with the tribe Much is unknown about these people, because of FUNAI's refusal to let anthropologists study the group. FUNAI became involved with these group of people when loggers increasingly were exploiting Korubo land in the Amazon rainforest. The korubo in the past have killed trespassers on their land but no incidents of this have been reported for over a decade. FUNAI helps the Korubo by giving them modern immunization shots and checking up on them often. FUNAI also established a national park that encompases the korubo's land in order to stop logging in the area. The Korubo population has remained fairly constant although two infant girls were killed by rival tribes. Their goal is to prevent further contact with the tribe by modern society in order to preserve their way of life for several more years. The Korubo eat a diet of mainly meat from monkeys and antelope found in the Amazon rainforest. Both men and women paint themselves with a red dye from the uruco tree. The tribe that was contacted by the above magazines seems to be led by a middle age woman named Maya because she calls most of the shots. |