The Yanomami Indians

Rainforest communities

The Yanomami Tribe

• Over the next few lessons we will be looking at specifically the Yanomami tribe.– How they live– How the interact with their environment– How the globalised world impact on their

environment– Responsibility of local governments– Current use of the environment

Introduction• Throughout the world there

are thousands of people who are live in extremely remote settings.

• These people live primitive lifestyles, and are unlike anybody you have ever encountered.

• They live far away from supermarkets, shopping centres, hot water, big soft beds and anything we as society take for granted

Introduction

• However these people choose to live, they are extremely effective in surviving.

• They know their environment well.

• They can survive off everything within their environment.

• They have traditions that date back to centuries ago that they still follow.

The Yanomami Tribe

The Yanomami Tribe The Amazon rainforest

The Yanomami Tribe

• Located in the amazon rainforest, on the boarder of Brazil and Venezuela.

• They live in large communal houses called shabono, that normally consist of immediate family and extended family.

• They speak a language that is quite unique, it is said that dialect can be different between tribes, and that their language is different to any other indigenous tribe in South America.

• In a world that is dominated with people who want to exploit whatever they can to profit communities and especially rainforest communities have suffered greatly.

The Yanomami Tribe

• Specifically rainforests have become one of the worlds most versatile environments. They are an invaluable source of minerals and timber and as the need for these resources grow so to does the impact placed on indigenous tribes such as the Yanomami tribe

• The Yanomami Tribe has only had contact with the outside world for the last 60 years

• It is been said that during the sixteenth century AD there were approxiamtly 5 million people living in the fertile amazon basin however the number has dwindled down to 200,000

Today’s Activity

• Todays activity• Groups of no more than five• You are to use the cardboard provided to create a poster on

who you think the Yanomami tribe is.– Where they live– What type of environment (temperate, tropical, sub tropical)– What they would eat– How they live– Sketches ( examples housing, animals they would eat)

• using prior knowledge and some minor research.• There will be a mini presentation of your findings at the end of

the lesson.