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Women are expected to carry 70 to 80 pound loads of crops on their backs during harvest season, using bark straps and woven baskets. [7] Plantains and grubs are common sources of food, and are staples in the Yanomami diet. Yanomami woman weaves a basket at the maloca do Eduardo in Brazil, June 1999.
"The Last Amazon of Dahomey" is a play in the Booker Prize-winning novel of 2019 called Girl, Woman, Other, by Bernardine Evaristo. The Ahosi are featured in the 2021 graphic novel Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall and Hugo Martinez.
At night, in this village near the Assua River in Brazil, the rainforest reverberates. Until recently, the Juma people seemed destined to disappear like countless other Amazon tribes decimated by ...
In 1961, British explorer Richard Mason was killed by an uncontacted Amazonian tribe, the Panará. [16] The Panará lived in relative isolation until 1973 when the government project (Cuiabá-Santarém) road BR-163 was built through their territory. As a result, the tribe suffered newly introduced diseases and environmental degradation of their ...
It's estimated about 77 isolated tribes willingly live in deep within the Brazilian Amazon - the most in the world, according to Survival International. These indigenous are typically very healthy ...
Yanoama: The Story of Helena Valero, a Girl Kidnapped by Amazonian Indians (original Italian title Yanoáma: dal racconto di una donna rapita dagli Indi) [1] is a biography of Helena Valero, a mixed-race mestizo woman [2] [3] who was captured in the 1930s as a girl by the Kohorochiwetari, a tribe of the Yanomami indigenous people, living in the Amazon rainforest on the border between Venezuela ...
Women are often victims of physical abuse and anger. Inter-village warfare is common, but is less often fatal to women. When Yanomami tribes fight and raid nearby tribes, women are often raped, beaten, and brought back to the shabono to be adopted into the captor's community.
Pages in category "Indigenous peoples of the Amazon" The following 136 pages are in this category, out of 136 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.