David Thomas'sYanomami

Guide

Where are the Yanomami from?The Yanomami come from the Amazon rainforest and don't want so leave.

The Yanomami live in structures called Yanos. The Yanomami people sleep hammocks that are made completely by themselves. One bad thing about Yanos is that after approximately five years they start rotting because they are made out of wood and leaves.

Houses

A Yano from bird's eye view

Where are the Yanomami from?The Yanomami come from the Amazon rainforest and don't want so leave.

The Yanomami live in structures called Yanos. The Yanomami people sleep hammocks that are made completely by themselves. One bad thing about Yanos is that after approximately five years they start rotting because they are made out of wood and leaves.

Houses

A Yano from bird's eye view

Diet and huntingMost Yanomami boys/men learn to hunt from a young age, as young as four Yanomami boys would learn how to use a bow and arrow. Once they learn how to use one they kill animals for food.

Yanomami people put them self in great danger to hunt because when they go out hunting in a group they could easily kill each other and you need a lot of strength to pull back a bow and fire it properly. They also eat a type of banana called plantain that grow in large quantity.

OutsidersThe first non-Yanomami people they met were hunters, foresters, soldiers, scientists and (priests). At first the Yanomami people thought that white people were ghosts because everyone in the Yanomami tribe are black people.

Outsiders wanted to mine gold and to mine gold they have to destroy their homes. Other reasons to destroy their houses are for farms. Plus the rain forest is being cut down.

Diet and huntingMost Yanomami boys/men learn to hunt from a young age, as young as four Yanomami boys would learn how to use a bow and arrow. Once they learn how to use one they kill animals for food.

Yanomami people put them self in great danger to hunt because when they go out hunting in a group they could easily kill each other and you need a lot of strength to pull back a bow and fire it properly. They also eat a type of banana called plantain that grow in large quantity.

OutsidersThe first non-Yanomami people they met were hunters, foresters, soldiers, scientists and (priests). At first the Yanomami people thought that white people were ghosts because everyone in the Yanomami tribe are black people.

Outsiders wanted to mine gold and to mine gold they have to destroy their homes. Other reasons to destroy their houses are for farms. Plus the rain forest is being cut down.

WomenWomen have some very important jobs but they don't hunt. Their jobs include looking after the children, gathering wood, cooking food, fishing and also gathering plants.

ReligionIn the Yanomami tribe, everyone believes in spirits and special people called Shamans who believe that they can see the spirits. The way they do this explained in the clip below.

WomenWomen have some very important jobs but they don't hunt. Their jobs include looking after the children, gathering wood, cooking food, fishing and also gathering plants.

ReligionIn the Yanomami tribe, everyone believes in spirits and special people called Shamans who believe that they can see the spirits. The way they do this explained in the clip below.

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