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Re:For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Hu... by showerst on Tuesday January 29, 2013 @01:50PM (#5135539)
Many of these Brazilian tribes have had some contact with loggers/miners/etc, just no formal government contact.

Perhaps more interesting is the case of the Sentinelese, who live on islands in the bay of bengal, and may have had literally no spoken contact with outsiders in hundreds of years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinelese_people

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Re:For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Hu... by DavidPlumpton on Wednesday January 30, 2013 @01:40AM (#5138420)
There have been many visits on the shore of their island by Indian anthropologists.
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