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	Goajiro Tribe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Goajiro Indian tribe of the Goajiro Peninsula in northern Colombia (adjacent Venezuela has a population estimated at 127,000 in the late 20th century.
		The Goajiro also raise cattle along with many other animals that are essential to their lifestyle.
		The Goajiro also believed that if the moth becomes troublesome, it can be removed only with the greatest care or the spirit may take vengeance.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/cultural/southamerica/goajiro.html (360 words)

	Goajiro-Arawak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Die Goajiro erwarben als Gegenwert von den Spaniern Haustiere wie Ziegen, Schafe, Schweine, Hühner, Rinder und Pferde und bauten eine nomadische Viehwirtschaft auf, die neue Basis ihres Überlebens.
		Die Sippen der Goajiro sind exogam (Heirat nach außen) und paarweise einander zugeordnet.
		Stirbt jemand in einem Clan der Goajiro, dann werden Rinder geopfert und ihr Fleisch zur Bewirtung der Gäste aus den anderen Clans zubereitet.
	www.matriarchat.net /welt/goajiro.html (884 words)

	Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Arawakan languages
		The Taíno language has been very poorly preserved, but its membership in the Arawakan family is generally accepted.
		It has been suggested that the Goajiro are descended from Taíno refugees, but the theory seems impossible to prove or disprove.
		The Carib people (after whom the Caribbean was named) formerly lived throughout the Lesser Antilles.
	fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/Arawaks (586 words)

	Lepidoptera in the Mythology of Native Americans Cultural Entomology Digest 4
		Native South Americans also integrated various Lepidoptera into their mythologies (6).
		To the Goajiro of Columbia, if a particular large, white moth is found in a bedroom it must not be mistreated for it is the spirit of an ancestor come to visit.
		If the moth becomes troublesome, it can be removed only with the greatest care or the spirit may take vengeance.
	www.bugbios.com /ced4/mythology.html (921 words)

	Arawakan languages at AllExperts
		Its closest relative among the better attested Arawakan languages seems to be the Goajiro language, spoken in Colombia.
		It has been suggested that the Goajiro are descended from TaÃno refugees, but the theory seems impossible to prove or disprove.
		The Carib people (after whom the Caribbean was named) formerly lived throughout the Lesser Antilles.
	en.allexperts.com /e/a/ar/arawakan_languages.htm (1003 words)

	Goajiro-Arawak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Die Goajiro erwarben als Gegenwert von den Spaniern Haustiere wie Ziegen, Schafe, Schweine, Hühner, Rinder und Pferde und bauten eine nomadische Viehwirtschaft auf, die neue Basis ihres Überlebens.
		Die Goajiro sind matrilinear und bilden etwa 30 große Clans, je mit einem Tier als Erkennungszeichen und mit eigenem Territorium.
		Stirbt jemand in einem Clan der Goajiro, dann werden Rinder geopfert und ihr Fleisch zur Bewirtung der Gäste aus den anderen Clans zubereitet.
	matriarchat.net /welt/goajiro.html (884 words)

	AxisofLogic/ Latin America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		He and hundreds of other goajiros had to walk for more than 24 hours towards the Venezuelan border so that death wouldn’t catch up with them.
		Although they solved their problems using their own laws, the goajiros lived and worked in peace and harmony.
		We never bothered anyone, and no one bothered us,” recalls Juchi, one of the many goajiros who had to flee to Venezuela to save their lives.
	www.axisoflogic.com /artman/publish/article_8549.shtml (4556 words)

	MedicalTable: Goajiro
		Numbering about 127,000 in the late 20th century, they speak an Arawakan language and are linguistically and culturally distinct from their neighbours to the south, the Arhuaco.
		The Goajiro are mainly a pastoral people, growing only a little corn (maize) to make chicha (beer).
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	medicaltable.blogspot.com /2004/04/goajiro.html (68 words)

	Definition of goajiro - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
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	www.webster.com /dictionary/goajiro (41 words)

	Lepidoptera in the Mythology of Native Americans Cultural Entomology Digest 4
		Native South Americans also integrated various Lepidoptera into their mythologies (6).
		To the Goajiro of Columbia, if a particular large, white moth is found in a bedroom it must not be mistreated for it is the spirit of an ancestor come to visit.
		If the moth becomes troublesome, it can be removed only with the greatest care or the spirit may take vengeance.
	www.insects.org /ced4/mythology.html (921 words)

	All words on Arawakan languages
		The Taino language is very poorly preserved, but its membership in the Arawakan family is generally accepted.
		It has been suggested that the Goajiro are descended from Taino refugees, but the theory seems impossible to prove or disprove.
		The Carib, after whom the Caribbean was named, formerly lived throughout the Lesser Antilles.
	www.allwords.org /ar/arawakan-languages.html (678 words)

	Kili-dlove - our pictures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The punishment was to be put in a sack with a rooster, a viper, and a dog, then drowned along with all three animals.
		In Colombia, if a Goajiro woman is successful in tripping a man during a ceremonial dance, he's required to have intercourse with her.
		When gentlemen in medieval Japan wished to seal an agreement, they urinated together, crisscrossing their streams of urine.
	www.kili-dlove.com /jokes/u_laws.htm (688 words)

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		The punishment was to be put in a sack with a rooster, a viper, and a dog, then drowned along with all three animals.
		In Colombia, if a Goajiro woman is successful in tripping a man during a ceremonial dance, he's required to have intercourse with her.
		When gentlemen in medieval Japan wished to seal an agreement, they urinated together, crisscrossing their streams of urine.
	farhads.4t.com /joke.html (303 words)

	IMB.ORG :: South America :: Prayer Network
		Please pray for the salvation of the 200,000 Wayuu people who live in the arid desert of the Zula state of Venezuela.
		Alternate names for the Wayuu are Arahuaco, Guajiro, Guajira, and Goajiro.
		They live along the border of Columbia at the Guajira Peninsula.
	southamerica.imb.org /Prayer/2006/04_06.htm (3489 words)

	Arawak words (It was Re: chicken in America: from Asia?)
		Some of those words made it into English, being "jerky" the better known (coming straight from Kechwa ch'arki).
		The maize brew is today more common in Peru and Bolivia, but it can be found also among Arawak peoples (and with that name, if I am not wrong) like the Goajiro or Guajiro of the Colombia-Venezuela area.
		Most non-Kechwa speaking people in the Andean region (including myself until several years ago) would today bet a roasted old chicken bone (highly prized by archaeologists, for they are very difficult to come by, so much so that none is known so far) that such a word is Kechwa.
	www.andes.missouri.edu /personal/dmartinez/diffusion/msg00046.html (440 words)

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