Yanomami in a sentence

The Yanomami Struggle, by Claudia Andujar, and artwork by the Yanomami people.

They enter with light Covid symptoms and bring it to the Yanomami indigenous reserve,” says Dário Kopenawa, vice-president of the Yanomami association Hutukara and son of its director, Davi Kopenawa.

According to the report, 150 Yanomami are eligible to return to their villages, but the wait for a place on a return flight can be very long — 10 years in one extreme case.

A famously isolated, “unacculturated” tribe—who, until a few decades prior, had almost no contact with outsiders—the Yanomami had become the object of intense anthropological investigation.

A Yankees cap seen during a mission by Brazil’s environmental special forces team to destroy illegal mining equipment in the Yanomami Indigenous territory in the Amazon rain forest.

Júnior Hekurari Yanomami: The destruction is enormous; it will take 20 or 30 years to heal.

Lula tweeted that the government received information on the “absurd situation” of malnourishment in Yanomami children.

Silva said that the federal government would use resources from the Amazon Fund to address the humanitarian crisis the Yanomami indigenous people in Roraima are going through.

The settlement depicted in the video is a Yanomami yano, a large communal house for several families.

Yanomami people living on the streets of Boa Vista.

As miners ravage Yanomami lands, combat-trained environmentalists work to root them out.

As the Brazilian military has rolled back its support for the government crackdown, the have come back, they say, making new incursions into Yanomami land.

On Wednesday, Federal Police announced the start of a new operation against illegal mining in Yanomami territory and said in a statement they will have the support of the armed forces.

Our people are dying because of mining," Dario Kopenawa, head of the Yanomami's Hutukara Association said in a press statement that accompanied the study.

Some 30,000 Yanomami live in Brazil’s largest Indigenous territory, spanning more than 9 million hectares (22 million acres) in the northern area of the Amazon rainforest, along the border with Venezuela.

A Yanomami teenager became the first indigenous person to die from the virus in Brazil.

Nehberg helped the indigenous Yanomami people in the Brazilian rainforest, whose habitat was severely endangered by gold prospectors.

Covering convert, the area is off-limits to farmers, miners, and all non-Yanomami settlers.

In the far south is a reserve for the country's Yanomami tribes.