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	MAR \| Data \| Chronology for Lowland Indigenous Peoples in Ecuador (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Amazonian Indian groups have been struggling for many years to expel foreign oil companies and Petroecuador from their land.
		OPIP (Pastaza Indians) would be the most harshly affected by losing over 600,000 hectares of their territory, which was to be awarded to them by the government.
		Indian and peasant groups blocked roads in the highlands region, isolating cities from other regions and from food-producing areas, to express opposition to the government's privatization program.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/chronology.asp?groupId=13003 (3070 words)

	Selected species and strategies to enhance income generation from Amazonian forests
		The list of Amazonian cultivars that have already found their way around the world is respectable, but it is merely a tiny fraction of what has already been domesticated by the Amerindians and used by them and peasants throughout the region.
		Numerous Amazonian plants have compounds that act as insecticides, fungicides, and preservatives, many of which are known to and used by the Indians and caboclos.
		Land rights, whether through demarcated Indian areas, extractive reserves, or individual titles, are only token gestures unless the groups are organized to protect their rights and the legal system is prepared to hear their cases.
	www.fao.org /docrep/V0784E/v0784e04.htm (4308 words)

	BACK FROM THE BRINK: Native peoples and the future - NI 186 - Building a network
		The Indians are being encouraged to take the tough, unskilled jobs on the palm oil plantations and to give up their nomadic lifestyle.
		For an isolated group of Indians on the verge of extinction this was a desperate attempt to defend themselves.
		The Indians were pushing for the recovery of their language and customs, while their leftist collaborators were insisting they suppress these efforts in favor of 'class struggle'.
	www.newint.org /issue186/network.htm (1475 words)

	Breaking Open the Head
		His Amazonian visions of a sleazed-out "composite city" became the atmosphere of Naked Lunch, written a few years later, with its dissolutions of identity; urban wastes of festering plagues, sex manias, and sadistic control freaks.
		In the Amazon, yagé is "the medicine," "the purge," "the vine of souls," "the rope of death." It is the substance that reveals the Amazonian Indian cosmology, source of indigenous wisdom.
		The Amazonian potion usually consists of two ingredients, the bark of the ayahuasca vine (banisteriopsis caapi, which grows in thick double-helix-shaped coils around rainforest trees) and the leaves of psychotria viridis or some other plant.
	www.breakingopenthehead.com /read_the_book_purge.htm (2195 words)

	WORLDwrite: Brazil Exchange
		Protecting the way of life and land of the Amazonian Indians is vital for the conservation of the forests and management of the environment in a sustainable way.
		Amazonian Indians have often been at the forefront of campaigns to prevent the imposition of modern development schemes which have threatened to destroy the environment.
		Amazonian indians were also centre stage at the 1992 UN Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro.
	www.worldwrite.org.uk /site/brazil/debate3.html (954 words)

	Amazon Animals mammals - manatee natural history
		The Amazonian manatee is the smallest of the sirenians, the family of mammals to which they belong.
		The Amazonian manatee is found in remote swampy lakes and slow-moving rivers where aquatic food plants are abundant.
		The diet of the Amazonian manatee is partially dependent on their seasonal dispersal (see Habitat and Distribution above).
	www.junglephotos.com /amazon/amanimals/ammammals/manateenathist.shtml (1323 words)

	Native American Indian Cultures - Mexico, South America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Fortunately there are some Indian cultures that are relatively intact, especially in Amazonia.
		In South America, not only are the cultures and traditions in danger of disappearing, but some of the Indians themselves are in danger of actual extinction.
		Many times the Native American, especially in the Amazon Rain Forest, is forced to revert to non-traditional and often ecologically unsound methods of supporting their families, such as slash and burn farming of our precious remaining rain forests.
	indian-cultures.com (584 words)

	Finnguide: ORINOCO - Amazonian Indian Cultures from Venezuela : Finland news : Attractions news : News from Finland
		The Indian way of life is characterized by an ecological way of thinking that prevents the exploitation of natural resources.
		The jewellery and the useful objects are made from a rich variety of materials: seeds and shells, palm fibre, birds' colourful feathers, the teeth of apes and jaguars, the claws of crayfish, the bills of birds, the shells of tortoises, the hooves of tapir or the chin bones of piranhas.
		The opinions about the present situation and an ideal future in the Orinoco area vary according to the person: whether he or she is an Indian, a settler, a politician or a biologist.
	www.finnguide.fi /sightguide/artdetail.asp?a=719 (905 words)

	Environemntal Conservation
		The TIK is of particular value in an Amazonian context because of the interdigitation of both closed-canopy Amazonian terra firme (non-flooded) forest and central Brazilian cerrado.
		Indeed, almost all Amazonian nature reserves tend to be chronically understaffed and underfunded, exist only on paper, and in recent decades have been overrun by a number of severe threats to biological conservation (Peres and Terborgh 1995).
		Redford, K.H., and Stearman, A.M. (1993) Forest-dwelling native Amazonians and the conservation of biodiversity.
	www.geocities.com /pinkaiti/envi_cons.html (7309 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: At Play In The Fields Of The Lord (xhtml)
		The most striking image in Peter Matthiessen's novel At Play in the Fields of the Lord describes an Amazonian Indian, standing in the center of a forest clearing, defiantly raising his bow and arrow against an airplane that flies between himself and the sun.
		Berenger's stay with the Indian tribe provides the most impressive scenes, and Babenco and Zaentz are patient here, providing time for us to get to know some of the tribe members and their ways.
		Amazonian Indians play themselves, and are subtitled; these are not screenplay Indians.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19911206/REVIEWS/112060301/1023 (962 words)

	Amazonian manatee
		Amazonian manatee distribution is restricted to the fresh waters of the Amazon River Basin and its tributaries in South America -- these animals never venture out into salt water.
		Many Amazonian manatees are found in Brazil where limited funding is available for research, but their habitat also reaches into Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru where more research is needed.
		Amazonian manatee behavior is highly influenced by the annual wet-dry cycle.
	www.sirenian.org /amazonian.html (400 words)

	Global Response Victories - Environmental Action & Education
		Amazonian Indian reserve the size of a small country in northern Brazil.
		Due to delays with the demarcation, five Indian groups living in the 6,370 square-mile (1.7 million-hectare) territory had previously demonstrated disenchantment with Lula, now in his third year in power, who championed minority rights in his election campaign.
		The creation of Indian reserves is enshrined in Brazil's 1988 constitution and aims to undo the centuries of discrimination suffered by Brazil's aboriginal people, who now number 400,000, compared with an estimated six million in 1500.
	www.globalresponse.org /victories.php?record=2066 (669 words)

	Chronology
		April 1992: 10,000 OPIP members (indigenous group from Pastaza in the Amazon) marched to Quito and demanded control of their ancestral land in the rainforest.
		May 1995: Indian and peasant groups blocked roads in the highlands region, isolating cities from other regions and from food-producing areas, to express opposition to the government's privitization program.
		December 1996: Antonio Vargas, an Amazonian leader, was elected as the new president of CONIAE over the opposition of indigenous peoples from the highlands who charged the electoral process was marred by irregularities.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/data/lindperuchro.htm (3188 words)

	Indigenous People in the Amazon
		A hypertrophic form of this romantic view is the fictitious claim disseminated by certain anthropologists that Amazonian Indians, or at least one important group of them, the Kayapo, possess and practice a highly sophisticated "science" of forest "management", through which they have virtually created the forest through a kind of ecological gardening.
		This perspective has obviously arisen, in the case of the Kayapo and other indigenous Amazonian peoples, from their experience as a society of relatively low population density, with a relatively rudimentary technology and no incentives for material production beyond subsistence, inhabiting a vast area of abundant resources that were, from their point of view, inexhaustible.
		As they gathered and planted the kernels, the ancestral Indians, who up to then had been a single society speaking a common language, began to speak the different, mutually unintelligible languages of the Indian societies of the contemporary Amazon, and scattered into the mutually dissociated native groups found in the region today.
	environment.uchicago.edu /studies/seminars/seminarpapers/turnertalk.htm (7731 words)

	survival
		SI then took the step of organising a press conference for Indian representatives of two major Amazonian Indian organizations; the campaign was funded by Christian Aid, the Onaway Trust and Oxfam.
		This article investigated the involvement of commercial interest in the massacre of Indians in Brazil which had become an issue after a 1968 report by the Brazilian Ministry of the Interior showed that crimes were being committed against the Indian population.
		We now understand that SI's choice to dispute an exhibition on the Amazonian Indians intended for the general public and its rallying of media coverage is not altogether a coincidence.
	www.therai.org.uk /pubs/at/museums/survival.html (2096 words)

	Finnguide: Orinoco -Amazonian Indian Cultures of Venezuela : Finland news : Attractions news : News from Finland
		The Indian population of Venezuela is the smallest in Latin America.
		The political organisation of many indigenous groups, the defence of their rights, and the gradual inclusion of indigenous groups in decision-making concerning the exploitation of natural resources in the areas where they live have increased local well-being in the region.
		The Orinoco — Amazonian Indian Cultures of Venezuela exhibition celebrates the diplomatic relations between Finland and Venezuela, which were established 50 years ago.
	www.finnguide.fi /sightguide/artdetail.asp?a=56 (526 words)

	Brazil - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Brazil
		Prior to Portuguese colonization Brazil was occupied by various American Indian peoples.
		By September the currency had fallen to a low of 2.84 against the US dollar, taking the year's fall to more than 30%.
		In April, Jader Barbalho, the Senate president and a supporter of President Cardoso, faced accusations from the opposition that he had embezzled US$830 million from Sudam, an Amazonian development agency.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Brazil (3404 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Amazonian is the only fresh water manatee and inhabits the Amazon estuaries, and parts of Paraguay, Peru and Brazil.
		The population of the manatee are very hard to determine for the West Indian and Amazonian, but for the Florida manatee, there are approximately 1900.
		The Amazonian manatee has either a white or pink patch on the belly and chest.
	hometown.aol.com /wildlifeadvoc8/Manatee.htm (666 words)

	Oil Companies Threaten Indian Communities and Amazon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This is taking place sespite the fact that the Ecuadorian government signed an agreement with OPIP (the Organization of Indian People of Pastaza) last year which stated that all Indian lands in the Sarayacu Region would be demarcated and legalized, and all work being done by oil companies would cease.
		The drilling is being done on Moretecocha Indian lands, near Sarayacu, in the Province of Pastaza, in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
		These organizations are very strong Indian organizations which are attempting to protect their people and homelands from destruction.
	abyayala.nativeweb.org /ecuador/amazon/oil/amazon1.html (469 words)

	Commentary Magazine - What Native Peoples Deserve (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		...As a result, although aware of the horrors long endured by Indians at the hands of slavers, settlers, and frontier psychopaths, he was also more prepared to face up to the grimmer aspects of the native cultures themselves, and of the horrors Indians had long inflicted on each other...
		...According to Hemming, the external political affairs of the Indians on the Xingu reserve are “supported by a remarkable contingent of 33 non-government organizations, a tireless band of missionaries, anthropologists, well-wishers, journalists, doctors, and lawyers, both in Brazil and abroad...
		...The Roosevelt Indian Reservation may be sitting on one of the world’s largest deposits, and no one wants to leave it in the ground—neither the Indians, nor the itinerant diggers (garimpeiros), nor the government...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V119I5P56-1.htm (4266 words)

	ICT [2005/12/08] Native Currents
		Food crops and livestock of American Indian or Andean origin have faced widespread middle-class prejudices, antagonistic public policies and various mechanisms of Bolivian marketplace discrimination over many decades.
		Bolivia's Amazonian and Chaco regions, occupying two-thirds of the country's landmass, have also added enormously to this panorama of Bolivian biodiversity - which occupies eighth place in world rankings among nations.
		Among the important Bolivian pioneers for reversing public policy and marketplace neocolonialism toward quinoa as a pejorative ''Indian food'' were Quechua farmers from the Nor Lipez province, adjacent to South America's largest salt flat, the Salar de Uyuni.
	www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=1096412065 (1156 words)

	Book Review: The Ritual Use of Ayahuasca
		Ayahuasca, the Quechua name of this drink, means "vine of the spirits", and the expansion of its use beyond the Indian and mestizo Amazonian population has been considered the most important phenomenon to happen in the world of entheogens in the last decade.
		It is divided in three parts: "Ayahuasca among the people of the forest", which deals with traditional Indian and Mestizo uses; "The Brazilian ayahuasca religions", on the syncretic religions that appeared in Brazil in the beginning of the XXth century, with articles by anthropologists and spokesmen of the different religions.
		Traditional and modern uses and how they may live alongside each other amicably, the different degree to which different uses of different substances are tolerated and criticism of the systems of social control that exist at present, are themes that cross all the discussions on the meanings of the various uses of ayahuasca.
	www.maps.org /reviews/rua.html (1390 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| Brazil authorises Indian reserve
		The reserve, Raposa Serra Do Sol, is called "the land of the fox and mountain of the sun" by the 12,000 Indians who live there.
		The move follows 30 years of campaigns by the Indians, which led to bitter conflicts with settlers and farmers.
		During that time, human rights groups say at least a dozen Indians were killed in conflicts with miners and settlers.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/4450755.stm (291 words)

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		Kracke (1987, p.33) demonstrates in his analysis of Kagwahiv Indian Amazonian society that the Kagwahiv Indians make a fruitful exchange between the associations and interpretations made from their myths and the way they explain their dream imagery to themselves.
		Later, Lincoln (1935, p.22) in his study of North American Indian dreams developed a distinction between 'individual' and correspondingly unimportant dreams, and 'culture pattern dreams' which were significant for the group and actively pursued.
		In a study of a Crow Indian Devereux (1969, p.139) analysed his Indian patient's dream within the cultural context of the Crow Indian vision quest and showed how he himself used this cultural context for therapeutic work with this patient.
	www.dur.ac.uk /i.r.edgar (2194 words)

	Indian Country Today - The Nation's Leading Native American Indian News Source
		There are many issues on the Pine Ridge Reservation, including past financial problems; a recent movement toward the separation of powers; the tribal courts have come under fire by both the tribal council and former justices; and the usual issues such as housing, economic development, health care and law enforcement.
		Editors' note: In a running conversation with Indian Country Today Senior Editor Jose Barreiro, John Trudell seeks to address lingering issues in the dissolution of the early American Indian Movement.
		The Aberdeen Area Indian Health Service is currently seeking potential quoters for a Firm...
	indiancountry.com (370 words)

	My project in Ecuador (Universidad Ma... - Ayahuasca - tribe.net
		The Universidad Mamallacta is an indigenous-run educational center being developed by Napo Runa Indians of the Ecuadorean Amazon, to help them keep their endangered traditional knowledge and rainforest way of life alive and to bring them the skills they want to have to deal with the modern world.
		Like most Amazonian indigenous peoples, the Napo Runa are shifting horticulturalists, traditionally clearing a small area for gardening, cultivating it for a few years, and then reforesting the plot and clearing a new garden.
		Many anthropologists believe that this is because, as one of the first Amazonian groups ever to come into contact with Europeans, the Napo Runa were among the first peoples to be exposed to Western diseases, and so they had to quickly discover new plants and treatments for the new diseases.
	ayahuasca.tribe.net /thread/b86ea0c5-b329-4966-adb3-b38fc1019043 (4732 words)

	Global Vision News Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		QUITO, May 29, 2003 -- A massacre of 30 members of an Amazonian Indian tribe in Ecuador, apparently carried out this week by another indigenous group, has angered local Indian rights groups and triggered calls for the government to protect tribes.
		"It is up to the national governments to respect the lives and the rights" of Amazonian Indians, the group said, and specifically blamed the Ecudorian authorities for not protecting the country's native peoples and their ancestral lands.
		"Behind this painful crime are the interests of timber companies which invade Indian lands...without necessary measures being taken by the civil and military authorities to prevent such acts," said another group, the Organization of Huaorani Nationality of Ecuador's Amazon....
	www.gvnews.net /html/DailyNews/abs4570.html (187 words)

	Manatees at Nature Haven
		They are made up of the West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus), ranging the waters of the continental United States northward along Florida's Gulf and Atlantic coasts and south to below the Amazon river.
		The Amazonian manatee (Trichechus inunguis) confines itself to the Amazon river and its tributaries.
		All three species - the West Indian, Amazonian, and African manatees are declining in population because they have been heavily hunted, though it is illegal to hunt them in the United States.
	www.naturehaven.com /Ocean/manatees.html (1163 words)

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