KASHINAWA TRIBE IN BRAZIL

THE KASHINAWA ARE INDIGENOUS ARE INDIGENOUS TO THE AMAZON. THEY ACCEPT OUTSIDERS. THEY LIVE IN 20 SETTLEMENTS. SCATTERED ALONG THE UPPER AMAZON. THEY HAVE 3000 LIVING HERE 2000 IN BRAZIL, AND 1000 IN CARONA PORTILLO. THEY PROBABLY LIVED HERE IN THE GENERAL AREA WHERE THEY PASS WHERE THEY PASSED. THEY HAVE LIVED HERE SINCE 1200 A.D. BRAZILIANS FROM THE 1860S MADE EXPEDITIONS TO LOCATE RUBBER, SARSAPARILLA, CACAO, AND COPAIBA OIL. THE EARLY COLONISTS SETTLED HERE. THESE EARLY CONTACTS SEEM TO HAVE BEEN PEACEFUL. BY 1898 PERUVIAN RUBBER WORKERS STAGED A PLANNED MASSACRE OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE AND DECIMATED THEIR POPULATION AND DESIGNATED THEIR POPULATION. BY 1910 THE KASHINAWA WORKED RUBBER MAKERS FOR BRAZIL BOSSES UNDER THE THE DEBT-PEONAGE SYSTEM. OTHERS FLED AND MOVED TO THE PERU IN ISOLATION. MANY BECAME CATHOLICS LIKE THEIR BRAZILIAN BOSSES.

BY 1970 THEY BUILT A HIGHWAY THAT OPENED UP THE AREA TO CATTLE RANCHING. AND A BATTLE OVER CONTROL OVER OF THE LAND. IT STILL CONTINUES. THEY DEVELOPED AN INDIGENOUS MOVEMENT AND SOME NEW IDEAS OF THEIR OWN. THEY BUILT SCHOOL AND ECONOMIC COOPERATIVES. THEY STILL HAVE MUCH OF THEIR CULTURE AND ADEPT SOME BRAZIL SOME BRAZIL SOME BRAZIL ELEMENTS . THEY BUILT A SINGLE HOUSE LARGE HOUSE IN THE MIDDLE OF THEIR GARDEN. THEY MADE HOUSES WITH HARDWOOD POSTS AND THATCHED ROOFS AND EARTHEN FLOORS. THE VILLAGE HAD A 25 TO 1`000 25 TO 100 PEOPLE. ALONG THE RIVER BANKS. 25 TO 100 PEOPLE. ALONG RIVER BANKS THEY BUILT RAISED PALM BARK FLOOR HOUSES WITH SLEEPING ROOMS COOKING HUTS NEARBY.

THE KASHINAWA WERE ANIMISTS AND BELIEVED THAT ALL OF NATURE AND HUMANS HAVE A SPIRITUAL PART - YUSHIN SPIRITS LIKE HUMANS ARE MEAN AND PLAYFUL DURING DREAMS WHILE UNCONSCIOUS AND UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF A HALLUCINOGENIC BREW. MEN DRINK THIS BREW. CATHOLIC RELIGIOUS IDEAS HAVE NOT ELIMINATED THESE TRADITIONAL BELIEFS. THEIR CEREMONIES CARE CARE FOR INITIATION, FERTILITY AND HEADMEAN RITUALS, AND A GREEN CORN MOON.

ONLY SOME MEN HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF MEDICINE MEN. SOME MEN HAVE SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE AND PROVIDE HERBAL TREATMENT! THOSE NOT RESPONSIVE TO HERBALS ARE TREATED BY HERBALS GIVEN BY A SHAMAN. WHEN ONE DIES THEY BELIEVE A PERSON'S SPIRIT DIESWITH HIM OR HER. ONE RELIEVES THE LIFE OF THE INDIVIDUAL AND ULTIMATELY DISSAPATES IN THE FOREST. OTHER SPIRITS JOIN ANCESTORS. OTHERS JOIN THE LIVING.

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