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    The Piaroa people, known among themselves as the Huottüja or De'aruhua, are a South American indigenous ethnic group of the middle Orinoco Basin in present-day...
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    Piaroa (also called Guagua ~ Kuakua ~ Quaqua, Adole ~ Ature, Wo’tiheh) is an indigenous language of Colombia and Venezuela, native to the Huottüja people...
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  • Colombia (northern llanos) dominated by peoples of Carib and Arawakan affiliation. Betoi may be related. Piaroa and Wirö (or "Maco") form a Piaroan branch...
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    the ceremonial practice using it by South American tribes. Cuiva and Piaroa people of Orinocoan descent commonly consume Cohoba. As a part of important...
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    In the Americas, indigenous peoples comprise the two continents' pre-Columbian inhabitants prior to European settlement in the 15th century, as well as...
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    "release" game animals, or their souls, from their hidden abodes. The Piaroa people have ecological concerns related to shamanism. Among the Inuit the angakkuq...
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  • this delicacy have been shut down by authorities. In Venezuela, the Piaroa people have a history of eating the Goliath birdeater tarantula (Theraphosa...
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    Hodï (category Indigenous peoples of the Amazon)
    language and are closely related to the Piaroa people, although linguistic connections between the two people groups have not reached consensus among...
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    Yanomami, and Piaroa tribes live in relative isolation. The Ministry of Indigenous Peoples has no policies designed to protect these people specifically...
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  • forests in southern Venezuela and was first described in 2002. The Piaroa people cultivate it for its fruit and call it "kuyaeri". Myrciaria puberulenta...
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  • Joanna Overing (category Living people)
    through fieldwork in Amazonia. She has extensively studied indigenous Piaroa people in the Orinoco basin of Venezuela. Overing completed her B.A. at Duke...
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    generic magical song: for example, eshuva for the Huachipaire people, meye for the Piaroa, mariri for the Kokama, or rao bewá for the Shipibo. The word...
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  • hunting goliath tarantula with the Piaroa people in Venezuela; breastfeeding orphaned monkey pets by the Awá Guajá people of the eastern Amazon; hunting birds-of-paradise...
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  • been made to link Hodï with the nearby Piaroa–Saliban languages. A recent proposal classifies Hodï and (Piaroa–)Saliban as the branches of a single Jodï–Saliban...
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    Arawaks, Caribs, and Timoto-cuicas the Auaké, Caquetio, Mariche, Pemon, and Piaroa. The number was much reduced after the Conquest, mainly through the spread...
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  • dialect of Piaroa (sometimes disambiguated as Mako or Maco) a.k.a. Maco-Hoti It has also been used for various other languages and peoples in the area...
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    Paucura, western Colombia Pemed, northwestern Colombia Pequi people, western Colombia Piaroa, Colombia and Venezuela Picara, western Colombia Pijao, central...
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  • Thëpë): Venezuela/Brazil Piaroa (Wothïha): Venezuela/Colombia Charruan peoples Charrúa: Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina Macro-Gê peoples Bororoan Bororo: Mato...
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    the Huottuja, or Piaroa, who get their blowguns from the Yekuana or Maquiritares; the Maquiritare, who get their curare from the Piaroa; and the Pemones...
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  • [pronunciation?] (contraction of Te' Inik, "people from here"; also known as Huaxtec, Wastek or Huastecos) are an indigenous people of Mexico, living in the La Huasteca...
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    Taíno (redirect from Taino people)
    Indigenous people of the Caribbean, whose culture has been continued today by their descendants and Taíno revivalist communities. Indigenous people in the...
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    The Wiwa people, also known as the Damana people, are an indigenous people of Colombia that speak Dʉmʉna, of the Chibchan language family, and live in...
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    also known as Camanchacos or Camanchangos, are an Indigenous people or group of peoples who inhabited a long stretch of the Pacific coast from southern...
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    Population figures for the Indigenous peoples of the Americas before European colonization have been difficult to establish. Estimates have varied widely...
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    (2N 62W) Pemon (Arecuna), Brazil, Guyana, and Venezuela Piapoco (3N 70W) Piaroa, Venezuela Pino (3N 54W) Piritú, Venezuela Purui (2N 52W) Saliba (Sáliva)...
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    in similar granitic areas. The specific name wothuja refers to the Piaroa people who live in the area of the type locality. Anomaloglossus verbeeksnyderorum...
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    The Omagua people (also known as the Umana, Cambeba, and Kambeba) are an indigenous people in Brazil's Amazon Basin. Their territory, when first in contact...
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  • Colombia and Venezuela Piaroa–Saliban languages Saliba language (Papua New Guinea) Saliba (name), including a list of people with the name Saliba Street...
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    genetic history of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas is divided into two distinct periods: the initial peopling of the Americas from about 20,000...
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  • Thumbnail for Timoto–Cuica people
    Timoto–Cuica people were an Indigenous people of the Americas composed primarily of two large tribes, the Timote and the Cuica, that inhabited in the Andes...
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