Yaminawá people

The Yaminawá (name in Brazil) or Yaminahua (Name in Peru and Bolivia) are an indigenous ethnic group in the tri-border region of Brazil, Bolivia and Peru, which belongs to the Pano linguistic family. Linguistically and ethnically closely related are also part of the Pano linguistic family yawanawa.

Both groups should not be confused with the various groups of the Yanomami, however, belonged to the Yanomam languages ​​an entirely different language family.

Habitat

Your current living space they have reached about 3,800 years ago. Their settlement area overlaps with that of the Machineri, unlike them, they speak a Pano or Paño language and often had conflicts with each other. Until the beginning of the rubber boom in 1880 they had their land exclusively. You have the threats in the wake of the rubber pin but survives: the Cotiana that Camari that Inhamoré that Capixi and Iñapari were wiped out, mostly indirectly through epidemics. My luck was that they have retreated deeper into the woods before the whites. New pressure on their country derives from the allocation of land to landless people from the Northeast of Brazil and from the coastal and mountainous region of Peru and also by cattle major projects. So far, the Yaminawá but remained untouched by invasions.

They drive subsistence farming, small trade ( with nuts ) drive them in Cobija, which is indeed 15 hours away by boat, but they have no access to the nearer markets Assis Brasil and Bolpebra.

Ritual significance snakes ( Sicuris and vipers ), one sees in them the own ancestors.

In Brazil, they live in the state of Acre along the border with Peru, some in the Indian reserve Mamoadate (since 1987, 3136 km ²), others in reserve Cabeceiras do Rio Acre (since 1992, 785 km ²). 1999 of a total of 618 Yaminawá lived there 81 or 217 people. Some also live in the town of Assis Brasil or in the favelas of Rio Branco. Health care and education are not adequately provided by state agencies and Protestant or Dominican missionaries.

In Peru 324 Yaminawá (1993 ) live.

Most of the 630 Yaminawá (1997) Living in Bolivia in Pando department in the municipality of Bolpebra, mostly in Puerto Yaminahua. Few live in Cobija.