Yaminawá

Total population
2,684[1] (Funasa, 2010)
Regions with significant populations
Brazil (Acre),Peru,Bolivia[1]
Languages
Yaminawá,Panoan language family

TheYaminawá (Iaminaua, Jaminawa, Yawanawa) are anIndigenous people who live inAcre (Brazil),Madre de Dios (Peru) andPando (Bolivia). Their homeland is Acre, Brazil.^[1]

The Yaminawá translated to "people of the axe." They are also called the Iaminaua, Jaminawa, Yaminawá (in Brazil), and Yaminahua (in Peru and Bolívia), as well as Yuminahua, Yabinahua, Yambinahua, Yamanawa, and other variants. The Yaminawá name was given to them by outsiders. They have severalautonyms includingBashonawá (basho = "opossum"),Marinawá (mari = "cutia", anagouti),Xixinawá (xixi = "whitecoati"), orYawanawá (yawa = "wild boar").^[2]

TheYaminawá language belongs to thePanoan language family. Linguists estimate that less than 1600 people speak the language.^[3] ItsISO 639-3 code is YAA. Very few Yaminawá people speak Spanish or Portuguese, and their literacy rate is extremely low.^[4]

The Yawanawa community is currently led by Tashka and Laura Yawanawa. Tashka Yawanawa had served as Chief of the Yananawa since 2001.^{[citation needed]} In just a few years, Tashka and his wife Laura (Mixteca-Zapoteca) have worked to increase Yawanawa territory, reinvigorate Yawanawa culture, and establish economically and socially empowering relationships with the outside world.^{[citation needed]}

The Yawanawa community and their allies are developing a new model of sustainability that allows the Yawanawa to protect the rainforest and engage with the outside world on their own terms, without losing their cultural and spiritual identity.^{[citation needed]}

• Yaminawá in theEncyclopedia of Indigenous Peoples in Brazil
• Video of Yaminawa mourning songs

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