{"id":3230,"date":"2023-02-11T11:11:28","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T05:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3230"},"modified":"2025-03-26T11:07:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T05:37:45","slug":"who-are-yanomami-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/who-are-yanomami-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Who are Yanomami People?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Yanomami people:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Yanomami tribe is a group of indigenous people who live in an area spanning the border region between <strong>Venezuela<\/strong> (<strong>Orinoco River basin<\/strong>)<strong> and Brazil<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>They are also called South American Indians.<\/li>\n<li>They speak the <strong>Xirian\u00e1 language.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Economy and Occupation:<\/strong> They are foraging horticulturists who depend on shifting cultivation, the gathering of fruits, banana cultivation, hunting, etc., for their livelihood.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Who is Davi Kopenawa Yanomami?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>He is known as the \u2018<strong>Dalai Lama of the Rainforest\u2019.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>He was the recipient of the Right to Livelihood Award in Stockholm in Sweden (also called the Alternative Nobel Prize).\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>He is well known for leading the 20-year campaign of the Yanomami people to protect their traditional lands which is the largest rainforest area under indigenous control in the world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is horticulture?<\/h3>\n<p>Horticulture is the branch of plant agriculture dealing with garden crops, generally fruits, vegetables, and ornamental plants.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/mining\/brazil-launches-operation-against-mining-mafia-on-indigenous-land-87637\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Brazil launches operation against mining mafia on Indigenous land<\/u><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yanomami tribe is a group of indigenous people who live in an area spanning the border region between Venezuela and Brazil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}