Yanomami

Yanomami
Yanomami woman and her child, June 1997
Total population
approx. 35,339[1][2]
Regions with significant populations
 Venezuela (southeastern)16,069 (2009)
 Brazil (northern)19,420 (2011)
Languages
Yanomaman languages
Religion
Shamanism

The Yanomami, also spelled Yąnomamö or Yanomama, are a group of approximately 35,000 indigenous people who live in some 200–250 villages in the Amazon rainforest on the border between Venezuela and Brazil.

  1. ^ "Yanomami - Indigenous Peoples in Brazil". pib.socioambiental.org. Archived from the original on June 19, 2018.
  2. ^ Criado, Miguel Ángel (29 October 2014). "Ianomamis vão à guerra com estranhos em troca de mulheres, diz pesquisador" [Yanomami go to war with strangers in exchange for women, says researcher]. Internacional (in Brazilian Portuguese). Archived from the original on March 8, 2016.