Ethnic groups in South America Ethnic groups in South America An Afro-Latin American is a person from Latin America who has black ancestry. Concepts of "Black", negro or "African" are vastly different in Latin America than how they are applied within the English-speaking nations of America, since the one-drop theory was never used. Latinos believe the term "Afro-Latino" is not necessary as the term "Latino" itself ecompasses and includes a melée of various ethnic heritages that includes Indigenous, African and European bloodlines. Many in Latin America feel that certain allegedly politically-correct citizens of the United States lack a thorough understanding of what it actually means to be a Latino in America. They feel that many U.S. persons are trying to impose their views on how to define Latino culture by viewing and comparing everyone's history through their own cultural and racial experiences in the United States and not through the cultural and ethnic lens of Latino America itself. ...more on Wikipedia about "Afro-Latin American"
Afro-Peruvians are citizens of Peru desceneded from African slaves who were brought to the New World from the arrival of the conquistadores to the the end of the slave trade. They make about 1% of the Peruvian population. ...more on Wikipedia about "Afro-Peruvian"
The Alacaluf (also called Halakwulup, Kawésqar, Kaweskar) are a South American people living in Chile in the Magellan Strait ( Brunswick Peninsula, and Wellington, Santa Inés, and Desolación islands), Chile. Their traditional language is known as Kawésqar. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alacaluf"
The Asháninka or Asháninca (also called "Campa" or "Kampa") are an indigenous people of eastern Perú and western Brazil. ...more on Wikipedia about "Asháninka"
The Awá are an endangered indigenous group of people living in the eastern Amazon forests of Brazil. Originally living in settlements, they adopted a nomadic lifestyle about 1800 to escape incursions by Europeans. During the nineteenth century, they came under increasing attack by settlers in the region, who cleared most of the forests from their land. From the mid- 1980s onward, some Awá moved to government-established settlements, but for the most part they were able to maintain their traditional way of life, living entirely off their forests, in nomadic groups of a few dozen people, with little or no contact with the outside world. ...more on Wikipedia about "Awá"
The Banawa (Banawá) are an indigenous group of just seventy people 1994, living along the Banawá River in the Amazonas State, Brazil, where they are concentrated in a single village and two smaller settlements containing a single extended family each. The Banawá, who call themselves Kitiya, speak an Arawak language. ...more on Wikipedia about "Banawa"
The Bororo are a Bororoan-speaking people in the Mato Grosso region of Brazil; they also extended into Bolivia and the Brazilian state of Goiás. The Western Bororo, now extinct, lived around the Jauru and Cabaçal rivers, while the Eastern Bororo ( Orarimogodoge) live in the region of the São Lourenço, Garças, and Vermelho rivers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bororo"
Caiapos are a Brazilian indigenous tribe. ...more on Wikipedia about "Caiapos"
The Enxet are an indigenous people of about 17,000 living in the Gran Chaco region of western Paraguay. Originally hunter-gatherers, many are now forced to supplement their livelihood as laborers on the cattle ranches that have encroached upon their dwindling natural forest habitat. Nevertheless, the Enxet are still engaged in an ongoing conflict with the government and ranchers, who want to destroy what remains of the forest to open the land for massive settlement. Today, only a handful of Enxet are still able to maintain their traditional way of life, while the majority live in small settlements sponsored by various missionary organizations. ...more on Wikipedia about "Enxet"
Gê are the people who speak Gê languages of northern South American Caribbean coast, their society is or was highly egalitarian and anti-authoritarian, because of that they resisted the Incas as well as the Spaniards. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gê"
The Juris were a tribe of South American Indians, formerly occupying the country between the rivers Ica (lower Putumayo) and Japura, north-western Brazil. In ancient days they were the most powerful tribe of the district, but in 1820 their numbers did not exceed 2000. Owing to inter-marrying, the Juris are believed to have been extinct for half a century. They were closely related to the Passes, and were like them a fair-skinned, finely built people with quite European features. ...more on Wikipedia about "Juris"
The Latin peoples are those linguistic-cultural groups that speak one of the Romance languages; they are called this way because they speak languages descended from the vulgar form of Latin. ...more on Wikipedia about "Latin peoples"
A Maroon (from the word marronage or American/Spanish cimarrón: "wild, savage, fugitive, runaway", lit. "living on mountaintops"; from Spanish cima: "top, summit") was a runaway slave in the West Indies, Central America, South America, or North America. The jungles around the Caribbean Sea offered food, shelter, and isolation for the escaped slaves. There, the Maroons created their own independent communities which have survived for centuries and until recently remained separate from mainstream society. ...more on Wikipedia about "Maroon (people)"
Portuguese-Brazilian ( Portuguese: luso-brasileiro) is a Portuguese-born person with Brazilian citizenship or a Brazilian-born person of Portuguese ancestry. ...more on Wikipedia about "Portuguese-Brazilian" It's time to think about shortopedia. shortopedia
Saramaka, sometimes spelled Saramacca is the name of a group of Maroons (escaped African slaves) who established small communities along the Suriname River in Suriname during the XVIII century and are now present in Suriname and in French Guiana. ...more on Wikipedia about "Saramaka"
Yuracaré (also called Yuruyure, Yurucare) are South American Indian people living on 2,500 square kilometres along the Chapare River watershed in the Cochabamba Department, in the Bolivian Lowlands of the Amazon Basin. The tribe resides between Santa Cruz de la Sierra and Cochabamba, among the forests and plains near the Andes. ...more on Wikipedia about "Yuracaré"
The Zaparos a tribe or group of tribes of South American Indians of the river Napo. They occupy some 12,000 m² between the Napo and the Pastaza. Their only industries are hammock plaiting and fishing-net weaving. Polygamy is general. They wear a long skirt of bark fibre. ...more on Wikipedia about "Zaparos"
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