JEBERO INDIANS IN PERU

THE JEBERO USED TO LIVE IN THE AREA MARANON HUALLAGA RIVERS, BUT THEY ARE NOW IN CATHOLIC MISSIONS. THERE ARE ABOUT 3000. ONLY THE OLDER OF THE FOLKS SPEAK THE NATIVE LANGUAGE. MOST FOLKS SPEAK THE NATIVE LANGUAGE. MOST FOLKS SPEAK SPANISH AND QUECHUA. BY THE LATE 1600'S THEY ACCEPTED PROTECTION OF THE MISSION. IN THE
1640'S SODO JEBERO GATHERED AT CONCEPTION DE XEVERO. THEY LEFT THIS MISSION BECAUSE OF FEAR OF BEING ENSLAVED BUT LATER THEY RETURNED BECAUSE OF FAMINE. BECAUSE OF FAMINE. THEY REMAINED AN THERE THROUGH THE 18TH CENTURY. IN 1859 ABOUT 2000 JEBERO WORKED AS PEONS. THE PARANAPURA ARE A GROUP OF WHOSE ANCESTORS WERE JEBERO BUT ESCAPED THE SLAVE RAIDERS. THEY MARRIED THE MUNICHI INDIANS. THEIR POPULATION WAS REDUCED BY RUBBER TAPPERS IN THE EARLY 1900'S.

TRADITIONALLY THEY WERE HORTICULTURALISTS WHO GREW WHO GREW SWEET POTATOES.AND MARRIED THE MUNICHI INDIANS. THEIR POPULATION WAS REDUCED BY RUBBER TAPPERS IN THE EARLY 1900'S. TRADITIONALLY HORTICULTURALISTS WHO GREW SWEET POTATOES., CORN, MANIOC, COTTON, BANANAS AND SUGAR CANE. THEIR LAND WAS NOT THAT FERTILE, SO THEY MOVED TO NEW GARDEN SITES EVERY TWO YEARS. THEY FOUND LITTLE GAME. THEY SPEERED MANATEES AND FISHED. THEY KNOWN FOR THEIR COTTON WEAVING SKILLS AND MADE DECORATED POTTERY.

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