Uncontacted Indigenous Groups: The Missionaries Still Hunting Them

Quiet Canines Podcast · Oct 24, 2026 · 3m

There are at least 196 uncontacted Indigenous groups living in the world today, amounting to around 10,000 people. Most live in the Amazon rainforest. They know the modern world exists, but choose to avoid contact. History shows that first contact often leads to catastrophe. Following Columbus’s arrival in 1492, disease, warfare, and forced labor wiped out about 90% of the Indigenous population in the Americas.

But that did not stop wealthy, US backed evangelical organizations like New Tribes Mission. They believe the Second Coming of Jesus Christ will not happen until every uncontacted tribe…