Essay On Why Native Americans Should Be Forced Into Contact

One reason why we should not force the last isolated indigenous peoples into contact is because it could create safety issues. According to my source, should these indigenous people be forced into contact they would be exposed to diseases, brutality from outsiders, and most likely have their lands stolen from them. These secluded people shouldn’t be forced into contact where they could be exploited and wiped out. As the article “‘Human Safaris’ in the Amazon Basin Put Uncontacted Tribes at Risk” states, they are actually very smart to stay hidden. About a hundred years ago mass numbers of Native Americans from South America were rounded up to labor for rubber barons. After Christopher Columbus’ finding of the “New World” indigenous people were wiped out by the millions. These are just a couple examples of the safety issues contact …show more content…
According to my sources, the Guajajara tribe, who were formerly one of the isolated tribes, have stated their opinion on the matter. 100 years ago their population was nearly obliterated by disease from contact with the outside world. Naturally they took the non-contact side of the issue, and who knows better than the survivors of a past contact attempt? If the Guajajara think that forced contact isn’t right then who are we to make decisions otherwise? The isolated people also made a decision when they went into isolation years ago. If they wanted to communicate with us they would’ve at least tried to at some point. Instead they did their very best to keep themselves hidden for hundreds of years while the modern world devoured their forests. The very fact that they are still isolated is further proof that they want to stay hidden. We should do our best to help them stay detached from the modern world instead of trespass on their land to sweep them out of the jungle into an unknown