a project about indigenous people of the Amazon Rainforest

1. INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
By: Carla Cabot & Paula Pérez

2. What the Yanomami look like?
They have brownish
skin and they usually
wear piercings on their
face.

3. The life of the Yanomamis
They live in some 200–250 villages in the Amazon rainforest on the
border between Venezuela and Brazil.
On one village they can be between 50-400 native people. .

4. Diet and medicine
The Yanomami can be classified as foraging horticulturalists,
depending heavily on rainforest resources; they use burn holticulture,
grow bananas, gather fruit, and hunt animals and fish. They use plants
like Curare, the chinchona tree, also the cacao for medicine. The
chinchona tree is used for the anti-malaria properties, the Curare is
used in medicine as a muscle relaxant and in Parkinson's disease.

5. What’s happening to
the Yanomami
They are suffering the mining, the logging,
the farming,the growth of population, the
climatic changes and the poverty.

6. Recomendations
-We mustn’t cut the trees because the world needs
them.
-We shouldn’t mine the territory because the
Yanomamis will not have place to live.
-We shouldn’t build in their territory because we
destroy their land.
-We must stop destroying their ecosystem
because is their ecosystem.
-We must help them to stop doing farms in their
territory because we have place to build and we
build there.

7. THANKS FOR YOUR
ATTENTION