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Yaminawá

Total population
2,684 (Funasa, 2010)
Regions with significant populations
Brazil (Acre), Peru, Bolivia
Languages
Yaminawá, Panoan language family

The Yaminawá (Iaminaua, Jaminawa, Yawanawa) are an indigenous people who live in Acre (Brazil), Madre de Dios (Peru) and Pando (Bolivia). Their homeland is Acre, Brazil.

Name

The Yaminawá translated to "people of the axe." They are also called the Iaminaua, Jaminawa, Yaminawá (in Brazil), and Yaminahua (in Peru and Bolívia), as well as Yuminahua, Yabinahua, Yambinahua, Yamanawa, and other variants. The Yaminawá name was given to them by outsiders. They have several autonyms including Bashonawá (basho = "opossum"), Marinawá (mari = "cutia", an agouti), Xixinawá (xixi = "white coati"), or Yawanawá (yawa = "wild boar").

Language

The Yaminawá language belongs to the Panoan language family. Linguists estimate that less than 1600 people speak the language. Its ISO 639-3 code is YAA. Very few Yaminawá people speak Spanish or Portuguese, and their literacy rate is extremely low.

Current affairs

The Yawanawa community is currently led by Tashka and Laura Yawanawa. Tashka Yawanawa had served as Chief of the Yananawa since 2001. In just a few years, Tashka and his wife Laura (Mixteca-Zapoteca) have worked to increase Yawanawa territory, reinvigorate Yawanawa culture, and establish economically and socially empowering relationships with the outside world.

The Yawanawa community and their allies are developing a new model of sustainability that allows the Yawanawa to protect the rainforest and engage with the outside world on their own terms, without losing their cultural and spiritual identity.

References

1. ^ "Yaminawá: Introduction." Povos Indigenous do Brasil. (retrieved 12 May 2017)
2. "Yaminawá: Name." Povos Indigenous do Brasil. (retrieved 25 June 2011)
3. Yaminawa Language Documentation Project
4. "Yaminahua." Ethnologue. (retrieved 25 June 2011)

Further reading

• Yaminawá in the Encyclopedia of Indigenous Peoples in Brazil
• Video of Yaminawa mourning songs

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