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NOTE: Find new copy of part 1 here: www.youtube.com This is an edited version of the 1993 Nova program '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. See the entire NOVA documentary here: www.youtube.com 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. This edited version concentrates mainly the portions that document the tribe itself, and minimizes the extensive segments devoted to outlining the various arguments that they were a hoax. Tasaday declared genuine. From Wikipilipinas: en.wikipilipinas.org 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 ...