MANAUS-AMAZONAS, BRAZIL - The contact occurred on Wednesday night (12), in a riverside community on the banks of the Purus River, in southwestern Amazonas.
The region is located about five kilometers from the Mamoriá Grande Ethnoenvironmental Protection Base (Bape), between the municipalities of Lábrea and Pauini.
The National Indian Foundation (Funai) did not disclose the ethnicity of the young native, only confirming that he belongs to the Mamoriá Grande Indigenous Land (TI).
He arrived at the riverside community around 7 pm on Wednesday, barefoot and wearing a fiber garment that covered his genitals.
A vÍdeo shows the interaction of a resident with the young indigenous person in a room of a house, where other riverside residents were also present.
The man showed how a lighter worked, and the indigenous man, impressed, learned how to use the object.
The indigenous man spoke in an unidentified dialect, while the riverside dwellers tried to communicate in Portuguese, using gestures.
Funai reported that, immediately after the interactions with the riverside dwellers, the agency was activated and the young indigenous man was taken, by Funai employees, to the Mamoriá Grande Ethnoenvironmental Protection Base.
There, the indigenous man received specialized medical care.
After that, the young native was taken to his village of origin, located in a forest region in the southwest of Amazonas, on Thursday (13).

Source: Amazon Agency