Ashaninka
Part 1 The Ashaninka people have a remarkable history of resilience, continuously standing up against invaders from the time of the Inca empire to the rubber boom of the nineteenth …
indigenous tribes
Apurina
Some argue that Apurinã – or in its older form, Ipuriná – is a word from the Jamamadi language. The group’s self-identification is popũkare. Some old texts refer to …
Nukini
The Nukini form part of the group of Pano-speaking peoples that inhabit the Juruá valley region and share very similar ways of life and views of the world, and devastating …
Kaxinawa
“The shaman gives and takes life. To become a shaman, you go alone into the forest and wrap your entire body in embira. You lie down at a path intersection …
Yawanawá
We are like peccaries: always together.” Taking white-lipped peccaries (yawa) as a symbol, Yawanawá discourse reaffirms both group cohesion and a stable relationship with their territory, an area which nowadays …