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Yawanawa
The Yawanawa, also called the Jaminawa, Xixinawa, Yaminawa, Bashonawa, or Marinawa, are an indigenous people who live Acre (Brazil), Peru, and Bolivia; their homeland is Acre, Brazil. The Yawanawan language is of the Panoan language group.
The Yawanawa community is on the rise under the leadership of Tashka and Laura Yawanawa. In 2001, at 26 years old, Tashka Yawanawa became responsible for 500 people and 100,000 hectares of Amazon rainforest as Chief of the Yawanawa. In just a few years, Tashka and his wife Laura, a Mixteca-Zapoteca leader from Oaxaca, Mexico, have managed to double the Yawanawa territory, reinvigorate ...
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