Indigenous Relationship
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The Brazilian Amazon alone is home to 20 million people including 400 different indigenous groups. These people rely on the forest for their way of life. It provides almost everything from food and shelter to tools and medicines, as well as playing a crucial role in people's spiritual and cultural life.
Living in in the forest is all about balance. What you take from the forest must not out balance what you give back to it.
A tribe that knows how to balance their lifestyle is the Yanomami tribe. The Yanomami tribe is the largest tribe in the Amazon. The Yanomami tribe is known for their elaborate body painting and clothing and also their use of plants for many things, such as clothing, food, shelter, medication and more.
The Yanomami people certainly have an impact on the environment and its only sustainable and allows the ecosystem they live to keep existing because it a part of an established system to prevent them from running out of resources. Much like the aboriginals of Australian, when game supplies run low, the community abandon the area of the forest they re living in and move on to another area, letting the forest section they were settled recuperate.
The Yanomami people are known to:
Living in in the forest is all about balance. What you take from the forest must not out balance what you give back to it.
A tribe that knows how to balance their lifestyle is the Yanomami tribe. The Yanomami tribe is the largest tribe in the Amazon. The Yanomami tribe is known for their elaborate body painting and clothing and also their use of plants for many things, such as clothing, food, shelter, medication and more.
The Yanomami people certainly have an impact on the environment and its only sustainable and allows the ecosystem they live to keep existing because it a part of an established system to prevent them from running out of resources. Much like the aboriginals of Australian, when game supplies run low, the community abandon the area of the forest they re living in and move on to another area, letting the forest section they were settled recuperate.
The Yanomami people are known to:
- Use fish poison in the rivers.
- Reduce mammal populations.
- Cut down trees and sometimes strip whole populations of palms to thatch their houses