Lethal arrows, trophy heads and eating monkeys: Inside the hundreds of ‘uncontacted’ tribes around the world

There are some people who just want to be left alone.

Scattered in remote pockets around the world, there are hundreds of isolated, “uncontacted” tribes that have never encountered humans from the modern world.

“They’re living completely self-sufficiently in their territories, and they’ve made it very clear they don’t want contact,” said Fiona Watson, research and advocacy director at Survival International, a UK-based group that supports the rights of indigenous and tribal people. “They do that in a number of ways. They may leave crossed arrows on their hunting trails. They may shoot arrows up at helicopters and airplanes that fly above them.”

Last week on the Lex Fridman Podcast, conservationist Paul Rosolie, author of the recently published “Junglekeeper: What it Takes to Change the