Other names:
Maiongong, Maquiritare, So'to, Yecuana
Location:
Brazil (northwest of the state of Roraima) and Venezuela
How many people:
430 (in Brazil, in 2000) and 4,800 (in Venezuela,
in the year 2000)
Language:
Of the Carib language family
Ye´kuana girl of the community
of Auaris, in Roraima. Photo: Ana Guita de Oliveira,
1974.
The Ye'kuana, ancient travelers in Amazonia, in
the forest and the city, demonstrate how different spaces
both within and outside their traditional territory can
become articulated, thus creating a kind of dynamic which,
far from threatening the preservation of their identity,
can actually be favorable to the creation and maintenance
of support networks, economic exchanges as well as of information
and social and economic projects.