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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. A.
It's an almost unheard-of encounter - caught on video.A group of "uncontacted" indigenous people came out of the Brazilian-Peruvian forest along the Amazon river and entering a nearby modern ...
A possible additional source for The Emerald Forest is the book Wizard of the Upper Amazon (1971). [17] The story is an autobiographical account of Manuel Córdova-Rios’ kidnapping when he was a teenager working for rubber cutters in the Amazon in the early 1900s. He was taken by a group of Native Amazonians to their remote Indian village ...
In their territory, a two-hour boat trip from the nearest road, their village is full of life. Children of varied ages play in the river. People fish with nets and rods, throwing back the small fish.
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.
According to the linguistic anthropologist and former Christian missionary Daniel Everett, . The Pirahã are supremely gifted in all the ways necessary to ensure their continued survival in the jungle: they know the usefulness and location of all important plants in their area; they understand the behavior of local animals and how to catch and avoid them; and they can walk into the jungle ...
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]
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 ...