Education is the key to the protection of human rights and preservation of cultural heritage. In a perfect world, yes o f course they are. The problem is that there are very few tribes left today that live in total, undisturbed isolation. Missionaries have converted most. Miners, oil interests, loggers, poachers and ranchers exploit many others.
Rainforests are the last remaining untapped resources and everyone is pushing in deeper and deeper.
Soon Indigenous people will find themselves employed as the cheap labor used to destroy their own lands. Education, followed by new legislation and autonomous ownership of their lands can reverse this dramatic trend. Indigenous people need more doctors, lawyers, teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and other professionals of their own. The main reason children do not attend school is because they lack motivation, supplies, and support. Many children skip school to work in the fields with their families, or to work in plantations or mines for insignificant wages.