Yanomami Tribe
The Yanomami is a tribe located in Northern Brazil and Venezuela, South America. They live in the rainforests and mountains environments. They both live off the land and farm. The Yanomami tribe’s population is approximately 32 thousand. The Brazilian land of the Yanomami is about 9.6 million hectares whilst the Yanomami territory of Venezuela is around 8.2 million hectares. Together these two lands make up the largest indigenous territory in the world. Although our culture differs from the Yanomami in many ways there are cultural universals which remind us that, even though we may be divided by oceans and be vastly different cultures, we can still hold the same beliefs, attitudes, and values that seem to be the basis of humanity. These include family values, form of healing and medicating, religion and rich history.
The Yanomami tribe live in the warm climate of the Amazon rainforest. They live off the land as hunter/gathers as well as farming certain crops. There are many rivers and lakes which allow them to fish. They use transportation such as canoes and boats. The environment in which the tribe inhabit has long since been exploited and polluted by the modern world. For decades the fertile and mineral rich territories of the Yanomami tribe have been exploited for gold mining development purposes and timber production. In the 1970’s the Brazilian government began development on a new high way which cut through a large proportion of Yanomami land, which resulted in the decrease of over 20% of the tribes population at the time. The main cause for this dramatic drop in population was the introduction of new diseases such as malaria smallpox and tuberculosis, which the Yanomami people had no formed resistance to. In the 1980’s and 1990’s violence escalate as heavily armed Brazilian gold miners invaded. Many reports of murdered Yanomami people were in existence. The Yanomami who are known for their fierceness and violence retaliated by killing the miners
The Yanomami tribe live in the warm climate of the Amazon rainforest. They live off the land as hunter/gathers as well as farming certain crops. There are many rivers and lakes which allow them to fish. They use transportation such as canoes and boats. The environment in which the tribe inhabit has long since been exploited and polluted by the modern world. For decades the fertile and mineral rich territories of the Yanomami tribe have been exploited for gold mining development purposes and timber production. In the 1970’s the Brazilian government began development on a new high way which cut through a large proportion of Yanomami land, which resulted in the decrease of over 20% of the tribes population at the time. The main cause for this dramatic drop in population was the introduction of new diseases such as malaria smallpox and tuberculosis, which the Yanomami people had no formed resistance to. In the 1980’s and 1990’s violence escalate as heavily armed Brazilian gold miners invaded. Many reports of murdered Yanomami people were in existence. The Yanomami who are known for their fierceness and violence retaliated by killing the miners