Brazil indigenous fight for return of blood - 28 Jan 09

To Brazil's indigenous Yanomami people, blood is a sacred part of life, but for anthropologists, it might hold valuable genetic information.

Forty years ago a team of world famous American anthropologists went to the Amazon to study the Yanomami, extracting hundreds of blood samples and bringing them back to the United States.

But now the Yanomami are campaigning to get their blood back so it can be buried in accordance with their traditions, as Al Jazeera's Gabriel Elizondo reports.

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[really12345]

No

All power to the people of Palestine

[thomasmc1957]

Typical western arrogance, they took those samples without ever even considering what it might mean to the natives.

[Safafan0707]

@thomasmc1957 Typical western arrogance? really? the blood was taken to study their diseases and end are horrible epidemic in the region!

[mrfortion408]

White colonization is happening all over the world. For the arabs, by a fake war on terror. Caused by our own USA government. For oil and more white colonization. Now Syrya LIbya, and Palestine for more than 60 years. If you where a real human you would know black,brown and yellow races are superior and better than white people . Just because you have more paper money & nuclear weapons white people think they can invade any other country. White people are not civilized because they cause war.

[emulous2]

Tanto hablar en derechos humanos y democracia y tanta violacion!

Que van hacer con tanto sangre? De eso solo ellos lo saben... pero que estupidez y que arrogancia de esos gilipollas.

[NeoByzantineWay]

Well the art work of the Aztecs can give us at least some reference to Cannibalism.

[OrphanPaper]

after 30 years it would be a black ball of congealed blood , and any tribes man would perform cleansing rights on receiving it back ,so it stands to reason that , that a cleansing ritual would be performed by the party returning it also, to free it of there spirits

[LanAlMira]

All very true except the aztecs being cannibals part. They would sacrifice people a lot and even would cut out a living dudes heart every 52 years to make sure the sun would come up but there is no evidence other than hearsay that they were cannibals

[LanAlMira]

They are not cannibalistic. Given they are a violent group but they do not eat human flesh. The only groups that do that are from papa new guinea.

[LanAlMira]

The tribesmen don't want the blood to be treated as it would ruin its purity and be the equivalent of sacrilege to their dead.

[LanAlMira]

I work in the PSU anthropology department and believe me it isn't all that simple. By law (which was passed after we obtained the blood) we are not allow to ship it via mail or plane if it is possibly contaminated.

[dawoudii]

cool a pardo moslim!,mashallah! im a dutch PART nativeamerican moslim too!jazakallahum khayran,ALLAH RAZ OLSUN.God bless! 2khilafah pardo u should know khilafah aint gonna come thats over freind!when imam mahdi(as) comes then will be khilafah back .but if u people think khilafah is gonna happen u can better send money to sadaqah and time with helping orphans.iran has a islamicstate and malaysia.the rest is just dreamin....its reality,(in my opinion .i wish no offence)