Native Rainforest People

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Native Rainforest People
Yanomami Tribe
Baka Tribe
Mentawai Tribe
http//www.econippon.org/en/kids/rainforestquestio
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Yanomami Tribe

• Who are the Yanomami?
• http//csf.colorado.edu/students/Behrens.Mark/yano
  mami.html

foto Michel Pellanders/1996 http//www.socioambie
ntal.org/website/pib/epi/yanomami/yanomami.htm

• How has the population of the tribe changed over
  the last 8 years?
• http//www.socioambiental.org/website/pib/english/
  whwhhow/table.htm

• What are the major threats to the Yanomami
  population?
• ftp//ftp.halcyon.com/pub/FWDP/Americas/yanomami.t
  xt
• http//www.cidh.oas.org/countryrep/brazil-eng/chap
  er206-1.htm

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Baka Tribe

• Who are the Baka?
• http//www.pbs.org/wnet/africa/explore/rainforest/
  rainforest_people_history_lo.html

• What are the essential aspects of the Baka
  culture?
• http//www.maurocampagnoli.com/baka/music.html

• What are the major threats to the Baka way of
  life?
• http//www.pbs.org/wnet/africa/explore/rainforest/
  rainforest_series_lo.html

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Mentawai Tribe

• Who are the Mentawai?
• http//www.caske2000.org/mentawai/

http//www.caske2000.org/mentawai/

• What are the spiritual beliefs of the Mentawai?
• http//www.cesil.com/0798/enschi07.htm

• What are the major threats to the Mentawai
  population?
• http//www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4
  077768,00.html