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Yanomami
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Ya·no·ma·mi  (yän-mäm) or Ya·no·ma·mo (-m)
n. pl. Yanomami or Ya·no·ma·mis or Yanomamo or Ya·no·ma·mos
1. A member of a South American Indian people living in widely scattered villages along the Brazil-Venezuela border.
2. The language of the Yanomami.


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Former journalist Richard Starks and travel writer and editor Miriam Murcutt relate their adventure along the mysterious Amazon in vivid detail, including a brush with a tribe of Yanomami Indians and a potentially dangerous confrontation with FARC guerillas.
By coincidence, Dwyer happened to be visiting the Yanomami Indians in the northern Amazon when Trudeau alighted on a whirlwind visit.
In Brazil, he's traveled thousands of miles by boat through the Amazon River, enjoying respectful interactions with indigenous tribes such as the Tukano and Yanomami Indians.
 
 
 
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