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Indigenous topics of the Amazon (23 P) J. Jivaroan peoples (1 C, 7 P) K. Kayapo (1 C, 7 P) P. Indigenous peoples in Peru (7 C, 49 P) ... White Amazonian Indians ...
The research, published on Monday in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, sheds more light on the lives of ancient Indigenous people of the Amazon Basin before the colonial invasion of the region.
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]
The Pirahã (pronounced [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]
Amazon River Basin (The southern Guianas, not marked on this map, are a part of the basin.) The mouth of the Amazon River. The Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries. The Amazon drainage basin covers an area of about 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi), [1] or about 35.5 percent of the South ...
The Amahuaca or Amhuaca are indigenous peoples of the southeastern Amazon Basin in Peru and Brazil. Isolated until the 18th century, they are currently under threat from ecological devastation, disease and violence brought by oil extractors and illegal loggers. In 1998, they numbered about 520.
The Bora have an elaborate knowledge of the plant life of the surrounding rainforest. Like other indigenous peoples of the Peruvian Amazon, such as the Urarina, [2] plants, especially trees, hold a complex and important interest for the Bora. [citation needed] Bows and arrows are the main weapons of the Bora culture used in person to person ...
View of Manú National Park in the Amazon Rainforest. This is a timeline of Amazon history, which dates back at least 11,000 years ago, when humans left indications of their presence in Caverna da Pedra Pintada. [1] [2] Here is a brief timeline of historical events in the Amazon River valley.