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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 peoples in Uruguay or Native Uruguayans, are the peoples who have historically lived in the modern state of Uruguay. Because of genocidal colonial practices, disease and active exclusion, only a very small share of the population is aware of the country's indigenous history or has known indigenous ancestry.
The Uru language, more specifically known as Iru-Itu, and Uchumataqu, is an extinct language formerly spoken by the Uru people.In 2004, it had 2 remaining native speakers out of an ethnic group of 140 people in the La Paz Department, Bolivia near Lake Titicaca, the rest having shifted to Aymara and Spanish.
The Council of the Charrúa Nation (Spanish: Consejo de la Nación Charrúa, acronym CONACHA) is a non-profit organization based in Uruguay.It is an umbrella organization, conceived to rescue, preserve and disseminate the identity and culture of the descendants of the Charrúa native indians, as well as to contribute to the construction of the national identity and to vindicate indigenous ...
The Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people of Brazil use technology to fend off encroachment in the National Geographic documentary "The Territory."
As a result, combined with generations of intermarriage, assimilation, and several waves of massive European immigration, the identity of Uruguay's indigenous peoples was largely erased. Throughout the 19th century and the first half of the 20th, Uruguay boasted the highest proportion of immigrant population in South America, with a majority ...
Volunteers and local leaders in Bolivia's high-altitude city of Oruro suited up in safety gear on Saturday to clean the polluted banks of the Andean country's Lake Uru Uru, home to flamingos and ...
In 1998, as the six remaining Juma were struggling to survive, Brazil’s Indigenous bureau, Funai, transferred them to an Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau village, located a few hundred miles away.