Edited 1993 Nova Tasaday Documentary Part 2

The full 56 minute Nova documentary is now online here: • Nova: The Lost Tribe -...
This is a shorter, edited version of the 1993 Nova program 'The Lost Tribe' that focuses mainly on the portions that document the tribe itself, and minimizes the extensive segments devoted to outlining the various arguments that they were a hoax.
See the entire NOVA documentary here: • Nova: The Lost Tribe -...
A good deal of the original documentary was devoted to the controversy surrounding allegations that the Tasadays, a tribe discovered in the early 70s living a primitive lifestyle, were a hoax. Since the show originally aired, it was established with reasonable certainly that they were in fact a tribe that had been lost for over a century living in the Mindanao rainforest of the Philippines.
Tasaday declared genuine. From Wikipilipinas:
en.wikipilipina...
While scholars debated, the hoax claims were also being challenged outside science|scientific circles. In 1987, the Philippine Congress held a four-month-long public investigation into the hoax claims, during which Elizalde arranged for a Tasaday woman to be present to support the original claims. The investigation concluded in favor of the original claims and denounced the possibility of a hoax. In 1988, President Corazon Aquino also conducted an inquiry and announced that the Tasaday were genuine and had nearly been victimized by unscrupulous scholars and businessmen who wanted their logging|timber- and mining|mineral-rich land. After the investigations, the Philippine National Museumand other official organizations began listing the Tasaday among the Philippines' indigenous people.
The Tasaday are a small group of indigenous people from the tropical rain forests of South Cotabato in Mindanao who allegedly lived a Stone Age life. Throughout the 1970s the Tasaday received world-wide fame, and then again in the 1980s when Oswald Iten purportedly discovered that they were a hoax masterminded government officials close to President Ferdinand E. Marcos.
Up until the mid twentieth century, the Tasaday as of 1971 could recall historical contact with two other local groups (known to the Tasaday as the Sandukasand the Tasafangs), apparently with similar lifeways to the Tasaday and also from the forest. Contact with the modern world (e.g. metal, cloth and cultivated foods) was not known to the 1970s Tasaday until the mid-20th century (exact date unknown, possibly the 1950s), when they met and began sporadically trading with Dafal, an itinerant member of various Philippine tribes including the Manobo Blit, Ubu and T'boli. (Note that these peoples, generally living outside the forest, were known to and at least somewhat familiar with the modern world at this time.) It is noteworthy, and helpful in comprehending the Tasaday's long-standing isolation, that many tribal peoples of Mindanao avoid the deep forest due to superstitions or beliefs.
More Tasaday info on WkiPhilipinas: en.wikipilipina...

[@engineeringresearch3656]

I think this is not only in mindanao, in the 80' we saw "ati" in our province in remote area of negros occidental. They are look tasaday clothing, the are no home but living under the trees near the sea shore. They ate migrating from place to place. The hunting "halo" and ebed - or sea shore reptiles. I think there is no conspiracy on them to live in that life condition, they have no tv director but living as by nature. In the age of you tube now I also understand that there is more advance civilization than ours and this is scientific.

[@MarcoJianMagno789]

They never had poor diet, they were very healthy people before the contact from civilized people, they have no disease.

[@st4r444]

LMAO!

[@juanshaftpatel7488]

yeah ok,... thats why there were only 20.. you filipinos are so dumb

[@juanshaftpatel7488]

smoking marlboros... lol

[@genevaldandoy629]

Tasaday.in.panorama.