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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]
One Brazilian organization USAID has supported is the Amazon-based Roraima Indigenous Council, which operates in 35 areas, including the territory of the Yanomami tribe. The area totals about ...
Though estimates of overexploitation-related deaths of the Yanomami people are very scattered and under-reported due to the remoteness of the territory, reports revealed 99 Yanomami children aged 5-year-old or younger died in 2022, of which a third was due to pneumonia, [30] [31] and from 2019 to 2023 a total of 570 Yanomami children died ...
A representative of Brazil's Yanomami people said he met Pope Francis on Wednesday to ask him to support Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's efforts to save his indigenous people.
The Yanomami Indigenous Territory was created through a series of steps that began with ordinance 1.817 of 8 January 1985 and led to the first homologation on 16 February 1989. [2] The Roraima National Forest was created by decree nº 97545 of 1 March 1989 and covered 2,664,685 hectares (6,584,580 acres) of the Amazon biome . [ 4 ]
In partnership with The Shed in New York City, the exhibition highlights the Yanomami people; one of the largest indigenous groups living in the Amazonia today.
Jacques Lizot (11 February 1938 – 22 June 2022 [1]) was a French anthropologist and linguist.He lived among the Yanomami people in Venezuela for over 20 years, documenting their culture and language.
For about the first hour of their documentary “The Falling Sky,” Brazilian directors Eryk Rocha and Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha introduce us to the traditions and ongoing plight of the Yanomami ...