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(a lengthy article about the Pirahã and Daniel Everett's work with them, with accompanying Slideshow Archived 2013-01-04 at archive.today. Correction appended online.) Bower, Bruce (4 December 2005). "The Piraha challenge: an Amazonian tribe takes grammar to a strange place". Science News. doi:10.2307/4017032. JSTOR 4017032
The Mura unlike other indigenous tribes are not isolated from the outside world but rather have extensive relations with other tribes and the Brazilian government.Their economic activity is mostly made up of natural resource extraction through activities like fishing, farming, logging, Livestock farming, and straw farming; though ecotourism also plays a role with individual Mura villages ...
The number of gold miners in the Yanomami area of Roraima was then estimated at 30 to 40 thousand, about five times the indigenous population resident there. Although the intensity of this gold rush has subsided greatly since 1990, gold prospecting continues today in the Yanomami land, spreading violence and serious health and social problems. [1]
Unlike many other cultures, the Jivaro cultures place more emphasis on gardening than they do on hunting. This is due to the unpredictable nature of hunting in their native region of the Amazon. As a result, a ritualistic approach to gardening sprouted in the Jivaro cultures.
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 Awá are an Indigenous people of Brazil living in the Amazon rain forest. There are approximately 350 members, and 100 of them have no contact with the outside world. They are considered highly endangered because of conflicts with logging interests in their territory. [1] The Awá people speak Guajá, a Tupi–Guaraní language. Originally ...
Since the 1920s, the tribe has often come into violent conflict with prospectors entering the region to harvest rubber, timber, gold or diamonds.In the 1960s, this culminated in the "Massacre at 11th Parallel" in which rubber prospectors killed many of the Cinta Larga by throwing dynamite into their village from a plane, and then finishing off the survivors, including killing women and ...
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 ...