Amazing Yagua Tribe
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The Amazing Tribes : Yagua Tribe
The Yagua are an indigenous people in Colombia and northeastern Peru, numbering approximately 6,000. Actually, they reside beside the Amazon, Napo, Putumayo and Yavari rivers and their tributaries. As of 2005, some Yagua have migrated northward to Colombia, beside the village of Leticia.
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| Yagua man demonstrating the use of a punaca at one of the Amazonian islands |
Yagua persons are also renowned as Llagua, Nijyamïï Nikyejaada, Yahua, Yava, and Yegua. There are two likely etymologies for the term 'Yagua', both of which begin outside of the Yagua language. First, the Quechua period yawar meaning body-fluid' or 'the color of blood', is a expected likelihood due to the Yagua made-to-order of painting their faces with achiote, the blood red kernels of the annatto plant (Bixa orellana).
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| Yagua's Elder |
During the pre-conquest period, the Yaguas were in close communicate with the Incas, as to this day there are far more Quechua (Inca) words in Yagua than there are Spanish words. The period in Quechua would have been something like yawar runa, 'the blood-red people', which could easily have been assimilated into Spanish as yagua.
Second, the term yagua in Spanish means 'royal palm'. This period could have been directed to the Yaguas by the Spanish explorers because much of the native apparel is made of palm fiber. regrettably, there is no facts and figures on whether a title resembling yagua was first utilised by the Quechuas of the area or the Spanish, thus there is no principled way to distinguish between these two likely etymologies.
The marvellous distances between villages make it very tough to have reliable interaction with Yaguas out-of-doors of one's dwelling village. All financial undertaking outside of the village is with non-Yagua peoples, usually Spanish-speakers. Thus there is financial and social pressure to discover Spanish and assimilate to the general Peruvian culture. Villages are furthermore characteristically rather little (2 to 30 families). This detail further limits the wideness of interaction with other Yaguas, and rises the inclination to desire to reach out after one's town for social and financial advantages.
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| Yagua Tribe : Preparing for Hunt |
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| Yagua Tribe |
However, the Yagua culture and dialect do continue to be viable, particularly in some of the bigger and more isolated groups. Some children augment up talking only Yagua, and native creative pursuits and crafts are a important economic activity.
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