I grew up with this Indian tribe in Bolivia and I speak the Yuqui language. They never wore leaves like that. We settled them down in the 60s thru the 80s and they've been wearing clothing ever since. They did run around naked for years before we got them to wear clothing. The film crew must have paid them to act more "primitive" by adding the leaves. They never wore leaves. They ran around naked when we found them. But the rest is accurate. They were nomadic and built lean-tos and ate turtles, pigs, monkeys (basically everything but snakes) just like you see in the video. They are mostly living in the cities now and they have cell phones and live in houses. Hilarious that they got them back out in the bush for a primitive throw-back shoot though. Made me laugh since they are so beyond that today. They did hunt with home made bows and arrows like that though. But most of them speak Spanish today. The respiratory disease mentioned in the video is from living in humid tropical weather and sleeping on/near the ground for their entire life. The lungs start to almost turn to stone. I believe there was a diagnosis for it, but I don't remember the name. I seem to recall there being a long term treatment some of them took to rid them of the fungus, but I think it was too late for some of them.
yeesss exactly i just wanted to comment it looks very unnatural, as of my knowledge mostly amazonian indians were wearing strings around their waist to tie their penis up to the belly. this dress is just bullshit you see it as the young girl has covered her milk utters with these leaves makes no sense as this is clearly western influence style to cover tits. these "clothes" made of leave they put on looks so unnatural and i never seen a style like this in amazonian culture. what a shame big dislike for the doc!
@@Fractaltown I left Bolivia in 1989 and my parents moved to work at the mission home in Cochabamba in 1993 or 1994. So you would have met Phil and Jackie Burns most likely.
@@Julie-kl5sp The Fosters are good friends of ours. I haven't read the book, but i sort of lived it over the years with him and his family. By the time I came around the tribe was settled down, but there were 2 more smaller Yuqui tribal groups we found in the 1980s. They had splintered off from the main group years before and it took a while to get the last of them settled down. It was much easier to get the last two groups to settle into a non nomadic lifestyle since they had the original group to "show" them how it was done. In the early days the natives thought we were insane when we told them to plant crops and wait for them to grow. To nomadic people that just sounded absurd! We paid them to farm their own fields for years until they finally realized that if they planted crops they didn't have to go out hunting every day. They could stay home, sit by the fire and cook up some corn, rice or beans and chill out a bit. LOL We had no roads or communications other than ham radio back then. Now there is cell phone service and roads right nearby. Time sure changes everything.
This was the lowlands. LOL 600 Ft above sea level if I remember correctly. A lot of the tribe developed a systemic fungus in the lungs from the constant humidity and sleeping on/near the ground for so many years.
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They look so pity... wishing them good health and happiness❤❤❤
I grew up with this Indian tribe in Bolivia and I speak the Yuqui language. They never wore leaves like that. We settled them down in the 60s thru the 80s and they've been wearing clothing ever since. They did run around naked for years before we got them to wear clothing. The film crew must have paid them to act more "primitive" by adding the leaves. They never wore leaves. They ran around naked when we found them. But the rest is accurate. They were nomadic and built lean-tos and ate turtles, pigs, monkeys (basically everything but snakes) just like you see in the video. They are mostly living in the cities now and they have cell phones and live in houses. Hilarious that they got them back out in the bush for a primitive throw-back shoot though. Made me laugh since they are so beyond that today. They did hunt with home made bows and arrows like that though. But most of them speak Spanish today.
The respiratory disease mentioned in the video is from living in humid tropical weather and sleeping on/near the ground for their entire life. The lungs start to almost turn to stone. I believe there was a diagnosis for it, but I don't remember the name. I seem to recall there being a long term treatment some of them took to rid them of the fungus, but I think it was too late for some of them.
Wow! What interesting stories you must have from your upbringing. You might enjoy the book "Someone Must Die (Preserving a People)" by Alan Foster.
yeesss exactly i just wanted to comment it looks very unnatural, as of my knowledge mostly amazonian indians were wearing strings around their waist to tie their penis up to the belly. this dress is just bullshit you see it as the young girl has covered her milk utters with these leaves makes no sense as this is clearly western influence style to cover tits. these "clothes" made of leave they put on looks so unnatural and i never seen a style like this in amazonian culture. what a shame big dislike for the doc!
I can vouch, they didn't use leaf for clothing when I was there either. BTW I wonder if we have met... I was down there in 1999
@@Fractaltown I left Bolivia in 1989 and my parents moved to work at the mission home in Cochabamba in 1993 or 1994. So you would have met Phil and Jackie Burns most likely.
@@Julie-kl5sp The Fosters are good friends of ours. I haven't read the book, but i sort of lived it over the years with him and his family. By the time I came around the tribe was settled down, but there were 2 more smaller Yuqui tribal groups we found in the 1980s. They had splintered off from the main group years before and it took a while to get the last of them settled down. It was much easier to get the last two groups to settle into a non nomadic lifestyle since they had the original group to "show" them how it was done. In the early days the natives thought we were insane when we told them to plant crops and wait for them to grow. To nomadic people that just sounded absurd! We paid them to farm their own fields for years until they finally realized that if they planted crops they didn't have to go out hunting every day. They could stay home, sit by the fire and cook up some corn, rice or beans and chill out a bit. LOL We had no roads or communications other than ham radio back then. Now there is cell phone service and roads right nearby. Time sure changes everything.
interesting to learn that sometimes living the modern life can be harder!
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iMAGINE THAT, THEY HAVE BEEN LIVING THERE FOR AGES, AND TO CUT TREES, NEED GOVERNMENT APPROVAL.
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No wonder their life span is much shorter than those people in the low lands.
This was the lowlands. LOL 600 Ft above sea level if I remember correctly. A lot of the tribe developed a systemic fungus in the lungs from the constant humidity and sleeping on/near the ground for so many years.