First the researcher started her research on uncontacted tribes specifically. She focused on the tribes troubles and threats. The researcher investigated current issues regarding Uncontacted Tribes. For example she analyzed a specific event that had recently occurred. A pair of indigenous people wandered from their tribe and contacted the dominant society. The indigenous people contacted a disease and returned back to their tribe. Many worried that the diseased indigenous people would spread the disease to the rest of the tribe. This introduced the researcher to a new threat. Diseases could exterminate a whole uncontacted tribe. The indigenous people’s low immunity made them extremely vulnerable. The researcher then focused on the main threats …show more content…
The researcher had to remain patient with the acquirement of knowledge. The researcher also had to have determination and not feel frustrated by the language barriers and lack of information. The researcher must have map skills to locate the tribes’ locations. The researcher also needed to express patience when using the yarn, because it would often tangle and fall off the nails.
The researcher needed a board, paint, nails, yarn, and a pen. The researcher painted the map of south america unto the board and then the nails represented the tribes. She wrapped the yarn around the nails and wrote the name of the tribe adjacent to the nail. The researcher needed four different colors of yarn to differentiate the threats towards indigenous people. The researcher first pinpointed the location of the tribes on a map of south america. After having all of the tribes, she relocated the tribes to the board. She also used color-coded flashcards to keep the information of each tribe.
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It showed the locations of the tribes and what threats they had encountered. The researcher color coded the threats and connected the tribes with the same threats. The product exposoes the reality of indigenous tribes and brought awareness to their threats. The product exposes the amount of tribes in south america and the atrocities done to them. The researcher’s product connects to the research question. The research questioned how does the dominant society affect uncontacted tribes. The product expresses four ways the dominant society has affected the indigenous tribes. Indigenous people lose their land by invasion. Without their land they must live somewhere else and also starve. Individuals from the mainstream society murder the indigenous people for inexcusable reasons. The indigenous people also lost their lives from disease and discrimination. Deforestation prevented the indigenous people to grow their crops and it also took their homes. It also gives a general idea of where the indigenous tribes locate themselves. The researcher decided to create a map depicting the overall effect of the mainstream society to the indigenous tribes because the researcher found more available information instead of focusing entirely on a single uncontacted tribe.
The language differences caused a barrier for the researcher. The researcher translated the languages and tried to interpret them the best she could. The lack of information