They’re an indigenous tribe on Indians settled in Brazil, both Men and Women are generally 80% nude. Xingu is Brazil’s oldest and probably most successful Indian reservation. The reserve was established in 1961, just a few years after many tribes in the area had their first contact with white civilization.

They still strip naked and paint their bodies with red powder from ground urucum seeds and the black ink of the jenipapo fruit Kuiussi, the Suya Indians’ chief, warns visitors not to take pictures of Indians wearing Western clothes cause that’s not their culture.

“If people see the pictures, they’ll say we’re not Indians -- that we’re mixed [race], and that’s not true,” he said. “We are all Indians here.” While Kuiussi worries about outside influences, his son, Wetanti, 25, sees no problem keeping a foot in both worlds. He displays a small album that begins with photos of him naked, painted and feathered, and ends with him in western outfits. they are free with their bodies & happy with their culture.

and since Tuira Kayapo, leader of the Kayapo tribe in Brazil, refusing to sign documents that would allow the damming of the Xingu tribe in 1989, I guess we’ll be seeing more of them

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Me in Brazil next year

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They need proper orientation. . . . . . . . the world has gone past all this na.