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The Yanomami women cultivate these gardens until they are no longer fertile, and then move their plots. As Amazonian soil is not very fertile, a new garden is cleared every two or three years. [6] 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]
The Pirahã (Portuguese pronunciation: [piɾaˈhɐ̃]) [a] are an indigenous people of the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil. They are the sole surviving subgroup of the Mura people, and are hunter-gatherers. They live mainly on the banks of the Maici River in Humaitá and Manicoré in the state of Amazonas. As of 2018, they number 800 individuals. [2]
The ethnonym Yanomami was produced by anthropologists based on the word yanõmami, which, in the expression yanõmami thëpë, signifies "human beings."This expression is opposed to the categories yaro (game animals) and yai (invisible or nameless beings), but also napë (enemy, stranger, non-indigenous).
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 ...
Indigenous people of the Amazon (2 C, 7 P) B. Bororo people (4 P) C. Indigenous peoples in Colombia (7 C, 78 P) I. ... Pages in category "Indigenous peoples of the ...
The Nukak people are nomadic hunter-gatherers living between the Guaviare and Inírida rivers in south-east Colombia at the headwaters of the northwest Amazon basin. [37] There are groups, including the Carabayo , Yuri and Passé , in Río Puré National Park [ es ] .
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Southwestern Amazon [ edit ] This region includes the Cuzco , Huánuco Junín , Loreto , Madre de Dios , and Ucayali Regions of eastern Peru , parts of Acre , Amazonas , and Rondônia , Brazil , and parts of the La Paz and Beni Departments of Bolivia .