Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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 .
Tucano bark cloth dance regalia, collection of the American Museum of Natural History. The Tucano people (sometimes spelt Tukano)(In Tucano: ye’pâ-masɨ (m.sg.), ye’pâ-maso (f.sg.), ye’pâ-masa (pl.)), [1] are a group of Indigenous South Americans in the northwestern Amazon, along the Vaupés River and the surrounding area.
The Tupian language family is the language family most widely spoken in the Amazon. Amazonian languages is the term used to refer to the indigenous languages of "Greater Amazonia." This area is significantly larger than the Amazon and extends from the Atlantic coast all the way to the Andes, while its southern border is usually said to be the ...
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us
Groups who decide to remain uncontacted are referred to as indigenous peoples in voluntary isolation. [1] Legal protections make estimating the total number of uncontacted peoples challenging, but estimates from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in the UN and the nonprofit group Survival International point to between 100 and 200 ...
Indigenous languages of Western Amazonia (9 C, 41 P) Pages in category "Indigenous culture of the Amazon" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
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 ...