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Article: The Amazon's people: among Brazil's rain forest tribes.
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- The World and I
- Article date:
- July 1, 1998
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Due to the vastness of the Amazonian rain forest, many tribes had not encountered people from the outside world until well into the twentieth century. The fearsome Yanomami, for example, were not "discovered" until 1965, when they confronted workers building a highway through their territory.
The Yanomami live in northwestern Brazil and southern Venezuela. They are estimated to number between 20,000 and 25,000 and form but one group among roughly 200,000 indigenous people who inhabit villages in the rain forests surrounding the Amazon River.
Like other Native American groups, the Amazonian Indians are believed to be descended from migratory Asian ...