Awá (Brazil), the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 28 relations: Activism, Amazônia Legal, Amazon rainforest, BBC News, Brazil, Colin Firth, COVID-19, Demarcation line, European colonization of the Americas, European Union, Forest Peoples Programme, Guajá language, Human rights, Hunter-gatherer, Indigenous peoples in Brazil, Logging, Maranhão, Nomad, Politics of Brazil, Reuters, Survival International, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, The Observer, The Washington Post, Tupi–Guarani languages, World Bank.

2. Hunter-gatherers of South America
3. Uncontacted peoples

Activism

Activism (or advocacy) consists of efforts to promote, impede, direct or intervene in social, political, economic or environmental reform with the desire to make changes in society toward a perceived greater good.

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Amazônia Legal

Amazônia Legal, also known as Brazil's Legal Amazon (BLA), is the largest socio-geographic division in Brazil, containing all nine states in the Amazon basin.

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Amazon rainforest

The Amazon rainforest, also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Brazil

Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.

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Colin Firth

Colin Andrew Firth (born 10 September 1960) is an English actor and producer.

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COVID-19

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.

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Demarcation line

A political demarcation line is a geopolitical border, often agreed upon as part of an armistice or ceasefire.

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European colonization of the Americas

During the Age of Discovery, a large scale colonization of the Americas, involving a number of European countries, took place primarily between the late 15th century and the early 19th century.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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Forest Peoples Programme

Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) advocates an alternative vision of how forests should be managed and controlled, based on respect for the rights of the people who know them best.

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Guajá language

Guajá, or Awá (also Ayaya, Guaxare, Wazaizara), is a geographically isolated Tupi–Guarani language spoken in Brazil.

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Human rights

Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,.

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Hunter-gatherer

A hunter-gatherer or forager is a human living in a community, or according to an ancestrally derived lifestyle, in which most or all food is obtained by foraging, that is, by gathering food from local naturally occurring sources, especially wild edible plants but also insects, fungi, honey, bird eggs, or anything safe to eat, and/or by hunting game (pursuing and/or trapping and killing wild animals, including catching fish).

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Indigenous peoples in Brazil

Indigenous peoples once comprised an estimated 2,000 tribes and nations inhabiting what is now Brazil, prior to European contact around 1500 AD. Awá (Brazil) and Indigenous peoples in Brazil are Ethnic groups in Brazil.

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Logging

Logging is the process of cutting, processing, and moving trees to a location for transport.

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Maranhão

Maranhão is a state in Brazil.

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Nomad

Nomads are communities without fixed habitation who regularly move to and from areas.

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Politics of Brazil

The politics of Brazil take place in a framework of a federal presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system.

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Reuters

Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.

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Survival International

Survival International is a human rights organisation formed in 1969, a London based charity that campaigns for the rights of Indigenous and/or tribal peoples and uncontacted peoples.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Tupi–Guarani languages

Tupi–Guarani (/tuːˈpiː ɡwɑˈrɑːni/ /ɡwɑˈɾɑ-/; Tupi-Guarani) is the most widely distributed subfamily of the Tupian languages of South America.

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World Bank

The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects.

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See also

Hunter-gatherers of South America

• Aché
• Akurio people
• Aquihuecó
• Araweté
• Awá (Brazil)
• Aweti
• Ayoreo
• Carabayo
• Caucahue
• Chamacoco
• Chono people
• Ese Ejja people
• Fuegians
• Haush
• Hiwi people
• Huni Kuin
• Ikpeng
• Kawésqar
• Las Vegas culture (archaeology)
• Machiguenga
• Mashco-Piro
• Pai Tavytera
• Paleo-Indian period
• Paleo-Indians
• Panará people
• Pirahã people
• Selk'nam people
• Sikiana
• Tacana people
• Tehuelche people
• Teushen
• Tsimané
• Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau
• Wilamaya Patjxa
• Yaghan
• Yahgan people
• Yaruro people
• Zuruahã

Uncontacted peoples

• Awá (Brazil)
• Ayoreo
• Carabayo
• Chitonahua
• First contact (anthropology)
• Flecheiros
• Himarimã
• Hodï
• Jarawas (Andaman Islands)
• Jururei
• Kampa Indigenous Territory and Envira River Isolated Peoples
• Kararao
• Kawahiva
• Kayapó Indigenous Territory
• Kayapo
• Korubo
• Man of the Hole
• Mashco-Piro
• Matsés
• Mek people
• Menkragnoti Indigenous Territory
• Nukak
• Pacahuara
• Pintupi
• Pintupi Nine
• Piripkura
• Richters (Australian Aboriginal family)
• Rục people
• Sentinelese
• Tagaeri
• Taromenane
• Toromona
• Uncontacted peoples
• Uru-Eu-Uaw-Uaw Indigenous Territory
• Vale do Javari
• Waorani people
• Wayampi
• Yaifo
• Yanomami

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awá_(Brazil)

Also known as Avá people, Awá (Guajá), Awa people (Brazil), Awá-Guajá people, Guajá, Guajás, Theawa.