Yaminawá
The Yaminawá (name in Brazil) or Yaminahua (name in Peru and Bolívien) are an indigenous ethnic group in the border triangle of Brazil , Bolivia and Peru that belongs to the Pano language family . The Yawanawá , who also belong to the Pano language family, are closely related in terms of language and ethnicity .
However, both groups should not be confused with the various groups of the Yanomami , who belonged to a completely different language family with the Yanomam languages .
habitat
They reached their current habitat around 3,800 years ago. Their settlement area overlaps with that of the Machineri , in contrast to them they speak a Pano or Paño language and often had conflicts with one another. Until the beginning of the rubber boom in 1880, they had their land exclusively. They survived the threats posed by the rubber peg : the Cotiana , Camari , Inhamoré , Capixi and Iñapari were wiped out, mostly indirectly through epidemics . Their luck was that they withdrew deeper into the woods from the whites. New pressure on their land arises from the allocation of land to landless people from north-east Brazil and from the coastal and mountainous regions of Peru and also from large-scale cattle breeding projects. So far, however, the Yaminawá have been spared invasions.
They do subsistence farming , they do a small trade (in nuts) in Cobija , which is 15 hours by boat away, but they have no access to the nearby markets of Assis Brasil and Bolpebra .
Snakes (sicuris and vipers) have ritual meaning, one sees in them one's own ancestors.
In Brazil they live in the state of Acre on the border with Peru, some in the Mamoadate Indian Conservation Area (since 1987, 3,136 km²), others in the Cabeceiras do Rio Acre Conservation Area (since 1992, 785 km²). Of a total of 618 Yaminawá, 81 and 217 people lived there in 1999. Some also live near the city of Assis Brasil or in the favelas of Rio Branco . Health care and training are inadequately provided by government agencies and Protestant or Dominican missionaries.
324 Yaminawá live in Peru (1993).
In Bolivia, most of the 630 Yaminawá (1997) live in the Pando department in the Bolpebra municipality , mostly in Puerto Yaminahua . Only a few live in Cobija.
See also
Indigenous peoples of South America
Web links
- Yaminawá on the website Povos Indígenas no Brasil , Instituto Socioambiental (Portuguese, English)
- Yaminawá in Bolivia (span.)
- Literature about the Yaminawa in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute in Berlin