#Awa in english series

In September 2012, Brazil's Indian Affairs Department claimed that loggers were only 6 km (3.7 mi) away from the Awá.

In April 2012, Survival International launched a worldwide campaign, backed by the actor Colin Firth, to protect the Awá people. According to Survival International, a human rights organization which campaigns for the rights of indigenous tribal peoples and considers them to be the 'earth's most threatened tribe,' Awá forests are now disappearing faster than in any other Indian area in the Brazilian Amazon. An investigation discovered the Awá camp in question had been destroyed by loggers. Īccording to the Indigenous Missionary Council, about 450 indigenous people were murdered between 20. Luis Carlos Guajajaras, a leader from another people, said that the girl had been killed as a warning to other native peoples living in the protected area. The murder happened inside a protected area in the state of Maranhão. In late 2011, illegal loggers burned an 8 year-old Awá girl alive after she wandered out of her village.

#Awa in english series

Meanwhile, encroachment on their land and a series of massacres had reduced their numbers to about 300, only about 60 of whom were still living their traditional hunter-gatherer way of life. It took 20 years of sustained pressure from campaigning organisations such as Survival International and, earlier, the Forest Peoples Programme before, in March 2003, the Awá's land was finally demarcated. However, the Brazilian government was extraordinarily slow to act on its commitment. Without government intervention, it seemed very likely that the Awá and their ancient culture would become extinct. One condition of the loan was that the lands of certain indigenous peoples, including the Awá, would be demarcated and protected this held particular importance for the Awá, whose forests were being increasingly invaded by outsiders, with many cases of tribespeople being killed by settlers, and the forest on which they depended being destroyed by logging and land clearance for farming. In 1982, the Brazilian government received a loan of US$900 million from the World Bank and the European Union. Sustaining themselves entirely from their forests in nomadic groups of a few dozen people, and with little or no contact with the outside world. However, for the most part, they were able to maintain their traditional way of life. Beginning around 1800, the Awá people adopted an increasingly nomadic lifestyle in order to avoid European invaders.įrom the mid-1980s onward, some Awá moved to government-established settlements. Originally living in settlements, they adopted a nomadic lifestyle around 1800 to escape incursions by Europeans.ĭuring the 19th century, the Awá came under increasing attack by European settlers in the region, who cleared most of the forests from their land. The Awá people speak Guajá, a Tupi–Guaraní language. They are considered highly endangered because of conflicts with logging interests in their territory. There are approximately 350 members, and 100 of them have no contact with the outside world.

The Awá are an indigenous people of Brazil living in the Amazon rain forest. For other uses, see Awa (disambiguation).