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The women also commonly use plants such as manioc to turn into flat cakes, which they cook over a small pile of coals. [6] Yanomami women are expected to bear and raise many children, who are expected to help their mothers with domestic chores from a very young age, and mothers rely very much on help from their daughters.
In 1988 the US-based World Wildlife Fund (WWF) funded the musical Yanomamo, by Peter Rose and Anne Conlon, to convey what is happening to the people and their natural environment in the Amazon rainforest. [66] It tells of Yanomami tribesmen/tribeswomen living in the Amazon and has been performed by many drama groups around the world. [67]
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 .
The Matsés or Mayoruna are an indigenous people of the Peruvian and Brazilian Amazon.Their traditional homelands are located between the Javari and Galvez rivers. The Matsés have long guarded their lands from other indigenous tribes and struggle with encroachment from illegal logging practices and poaching.
This image is of a Machiguenga woman who is dressed in traditional garb. Photo taken in the Pangoa province of Peru. The Machiguenga (also Matsigenka, Matsigenga [A 1]) are an indigenous people who live in the high jungle, or montaña, area on the eastern slopes of the Andes and in the Amazon Basin jungle regions of southeastern Peru.
The Ticuna were originally a tribe that lived far away from the rivers and whose expansion was kept in check by neighboring people. Their historical lack of access to waterways and their practice of endogamy has led to the Ticuna being culturally and genetically distinct from other Amazonian tribes. [3]
Amazonian Kichwas are a grouping of indigenous Kichwa peoples in the Ecuadorian Amazon, with minor groups across the borders of Colombia and Peru.Amazonian Kichwas consists of different ethnic peoples, including Napo Kichwa (or Napu Runa, as they call themselves, living in the Napo and Sucumbíos provinces, with some parts of their community living in Colombia and Peru) and Canelos Kichwa ...
The Shipibo-Conibo are an indigenous people along the Ucayali River in the Amazon rainforest in Peru. Formerly two groups, they eventually became one tribe through intermarriage and communal rituals and are currently known as the Shipibo-Conibo people. [2] [3] Traditional embroidery featuring the Shipibo-Conibo pattern known as kené