How will their life develop in the future? Awa Guaja Indians live daily with the threat of greedy people from outside with no regard. The term (condition) for the loan was that the Indian's area should be marked up and that borders should be respected. Problems have also occurred in other ways: excavation of minerals became in 1982 partly financed by EU and the World Bank. When they saw the advanced equipment and technology from the world outside, they lost their live spirit and sunk down.Īccording to the international organisation Survival International, have white farmers, who settled down in the area, gruesomely massacred many of these Indians. It has been said, that the day these Indians understood that they were not alone in the world, they became depressed. Many of the Indians in the villages have been struck by malaria and tuberculosis, but have been saved by medicines. But after they have lived so isolated for so long, their immunity system is not able to resist "unknown" sicknesses. Others live in four villages in Maranhao. Of the 350 Awa Guaja Indians live only 100 in the jungle in the traditional way. The Awa Guaja Indians live in the most impenetrable and unspoilt part of the jungle in Amazon in the Brazilian State Maranhao. The Indians became shocked when they understood that there was life outside their local surroundings. In the late 70`s the first contact was established between these Indians and the outside world. After the children are too big to hang at the women's breast, the monkeys take over. The reason is probably that many children will be difficult to raise under such hard living conditions. In that way they will not so easily become pregnant. Anthony Collins, who studies by the Jane Goodall Institute in England, believes that this serves a certain purpose: contraception! Women who breastfeed, postpone their menstruation. Send us an e-mail on: operator in Brazil:ĭr. The tribe hunts only the big ones.Ĭontact us in Travel Explorations for promoting your tours. The monkeys are treated as sacred animals. If the women lose their milk, it will be considered as a curse. This is an important part of the culture. As the custom is the woman breastfeeding them and give them even more attention than their own children. When they come home the women stand ready to prepare the food.Īnother more exact metric on the status and position is the number of monkeys the women have. It's the women's world! In other ways the allocation of duties and work are not different from the modern world. No one knows why the Awa Guaja Indians have built their society upon women on the top and at the same time they are sexual dominating (Vi Menn, Justin Sutcliffe/Scanpix, September 2000). © Photo Copyright Per Henriksen, Reiseliv - Number of available men indicates the women's status and position. Woman bathing together with her child in the Amazon, Brazil (illustration photo).
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