International: Nine Tribal Facts For August 9

International: Nine Tribal Facts For August 9   August 9th is the UN Day of indigenous people. To celebrate, here are 9 little-known facts from Survival International about tribal peoples:   1) There are over 100 uncontacted tribes in the world. Some live less than 100km from Machu Picchu, Peru’s biggest tourist attraction.   2) Tribal people in the Baliem valley of New Guinea probably developed agriculture long before the ancestors of Europeans.   3) The Moken ‘sea gypsies’ of the Andaman...

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