Description: Education resource for photos, videos, and information on Amazon Tribes, Amazonian Indians and natives from the Amazon River Basin of South America, including indigenous tribes from Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Venzuela and Ecuador.
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Amazon-Tribes.com is the ultimate source for information, resources, links and references on Amazon tribes, including photographs and videos of the indigenous people of the Amazon River Basin of South America. This website presents the various cultural traditions of Amazon tribes and Amazonian Indians in an enjoyable photo-essay format that allows one to view pictures of Amazon tribes with authoritative descriptions of their culture. Photos and images of these Amazon tribes natives ranges from Amazon Indi
In order to understand Amazon tribes and their significance, you must understand their history. Prior to the arrival of colonialists from Europe and first contact in sixteenth century, the Amazon River Basin had a population estimated at having up to a five million people and perhaps more than a five thousand Amazon tribes. However afterwards, the Amazonia experienced 500 years of violence, exploitation, and disease, that wiped out most of the original Amazon tribes. Presently, only about 500,000 Amazon
Another important integral part of Amazon tribes that helps us understand their culture is language. Unlike Europe, where only one major language family exists (Indo-European), in the Amazonia their are 34 language families. Moreover, their are over a dozen language isolates spoken by only one Amazon tribe and that are unrelated to other languages. This represents an incredible cultural and linguistic diversity unseen any place else in the world. For comparisons, all of Europe, Africa, and Asia combined
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