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The Uru or Uros (Uru: Qhas Qut suñi) are an indigenous people of Bolivia and Peru. They live on a still-growing group of about 120 self-fashioned floating islands in Lake Titicaca near Puno. They form three main groups: the Uru-Chipaya, Uru-Murato, and Uru-Iruito. The Uru-Iruito still inhabit the Bolivian side of Lake Titicaca and the ...
Indigenous Uruguayans disappeared in the 1830s and, with the exception of the Guaraní, little is known about these peoples and even less about their genetic characteristics. [5] The Charrúa peoples were perhaps the best-known indigenous people of the Southern Cone in what was called the Banda Oriental . [ 6 ]
The Ahiarmiut ᐃᓴᓪᒥᐅᑦ or Ihalmiut ("People from Beyond") or ("the Out-of-the-Way Dwellers") [1] [2] [3] are a group of inland Inuit who lived along the banks of the Kazan River, Ennadai Lake, [4] and Little Dubawnt Lake (renamed Kamilikuak), as well as north of Thlewiaza River ("Big River"), [5] in northern Canada's Keewatin Region of the Northwest Territories, now the Kivalliq ...
The native peoples of the Pacific coast also make totem poles, a trait attributed to other tribes as well. In 2000 a land claim was settled between the Nisga'a people of British Columbia and the provincial government, resulting in the return of over 2,000 square kilometres of land to the Nisga'a. Major ethnicities include the: Coast Salish peoples
The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples was a royal commission undertaken by the Government of Canada in 1991 to address issues of the Indigenous peoples of Canada. [151] It assessed past government policies toward Indigenous people, such as residential schools, and provided policy recommendations to the government. [152]
The Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people of Brazil use technology to fend off encroachment in the National Geographic documentary "The Territory."
The Charrúa are an Indigenous people or Indigenous Nation of the Southern Cone in present-day Uruguay [6] and the adjacent areas in Argentina (Entre Ríos) and Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul). [ 7 ] [ 8 ] They were a semi-nomadic people who sustained themselves mainly through hunting and gathering.
Yaro were one of the native nations of Uruguay [1] and Argentina (Entre Ríos). A minor tribe, they were closely related to the Charrúa people. [2] Nowadays a street in Montevideo (Cordón neighbourhood) bears their name.