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The indigenous tribes of the Amazon Lesson Objectives: • To understand what life is like as a member of the Kayapo tribe. Key Question: • Who are the tribes of the Amazon rainforest?

What does ‘indigenous’ mean? Where someone, something or a group of people originally come from. The first people to colonise Brazil were the tribal Indians (Amerindians). They lived in harmony with the plants and animals, much like their surviving ancestors today.

Who are the indigenous tribes of the Amazon? • The Amazon rainforest is located in the continent of South America. • It is located in the Amazon Basin. This is the area that drains into the Amazon River. • The Amazon rainforest is located in the following countries: Ø Ø Ø Ø Brazil Peru Colombia Venezuela Ecuador Bolivia Guyana Suriname French Guiana

Who are the indigenous tribes of the Amazon? TASK: Copy and complete the sentences below: • The Amazon rainforest is located in the continent ___________ • It is located in the ________. • The Amazon rainforest is located in the following countries:

Meeting the indigenous tribe of the Amazon… 1. Why do you think many of the Amazon’s tribes have not had much contact with the outside world? 2. What do you think the advantages of living in the Amazon would be? 3. What do you think the disadvantages of living in the Amazon would be? https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=4 oit 0 Pjf. HNo

Who are the indigenous tribes of the Amazon? TASK: Read through the next few slides and collect information (on a spider diagram) about who the indigenous tribes of the Amazon are.

Panara Tribe We are nomadic farmers. Nomadic means we move from place to place grazing our cattle. We have to cut down lots of trees to make room in the Amazon for all of our Cattle We have a large herd of Cattle. We sell the beef to large companies such as Mc. Donalds When the Cattle have eaten all of the plants and the nutrients have been washed from the soil we move to a new place

Korubo Tribe We build our settlements close to rivers as fish are our main source of food We m orn ake o a u bird ments r body f s tree feathe rom rs a bark nd To stop our houses flooding we build them on stilts We use spears to Our body hunt. You have to paintings be quick otherwise represent the fish willthe swim animals of the away Rainforest

Tupi Tribe We are Rubber Tappers. Our Jewellery is made from animal bones and teeth We use a knife to cut a line in the bark of the trees, this is how we collect the rubber We sell this to companies and it is used around the world We make our face and body paints from plants We live in harmony with the Rainforest and only use what we need

Kayapo Tribe We put disks in our bottom lip and ears to show our importance There are over 650 plants in the Amazon which we use to create medicine when we are sick We grow some crops, but we rely on hunting for food We wear colourful head dresses to identify tribe members

What is life like as a member of the Kayapo tribe? TASK: Using the information from the next few slides, discuss/think or write down the answers to the questions on the worksheets. = Worksheets on next two slides

Kayapo Tribe Who are the Kayapo tribe? How many Kayapo are there? Where do the Kayapo live? What do Kayapo houses look like? What threats do the Kayapo tribe face? How do the Kayapo use the rainforest? What is daily life like for the Kayapo? What do the Kayapo tribe eat? Who are the traditions of the Kayapo tribe?

Kayapo Tribe Who are the Kayapo tribe? How do the Kayapo use the rainforest? What do Kayapo houses look like? Include a sketch What are the traditions of the Kayapo tribe? Include what they wear. What is daily life like for the Kayapo? How do the Kayapo care for the forest?

Who are the Kayapo Tribe? • The Kayapo are one of the main tribes that still live in the Amazon rainforest around the Amazon river. • The Kayapo are known to be fierce native warriors that fight off other tribes that also stay in the rainforest and surround where they live in their territories. • Kayapo call themselves "Mebengokre", mebengokre means "people of the wellspring"

How many Kayapo are there? • There are nine Kayapo villages that are scattered throughout the territory of the Amazon, creating a 28. 4 million acre home to over 5 thousand Kayapo people. • The total population of the Kayapo people is estimated around 8, 640 people.

Where do the Kayapo live? • They live along the Xingu River in the eastern part of the Amazon rainforest, in several scattered villages. • Their lands consist of tropical rain forest and Savanna (grassland). • The Amazon basin, which includes the Amazon River and its tributaries such as the Xingu, is sometimes referred to as Amazonia. It includes parts of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

What do the Kayapo’s houses look like? • The Kayapo's houses look almost like beach sheds. They have thatched typed roofs and are quiet small. • The Kaypo's houses/shelters are made out of material that they can find in the forest. • The Kayapo make and build their own houses and groups share the one house. • Traditional Kayapo houses have circular type villages.

How do the Kayapo use the rainforest? • The forest gives them houses, transport, food clothes and medicine. • The problem is that rivers are essential to their way of life and gold mining in Brazil is polluting the rivers, therefore, spreading diseases throughout the tribes. • The Kayapo people use shifting cultivation, a type of farming where land is cultivated for a few years, until the people move on they clean another patch and do it all over again. • They get medicine from 650 different plants that they find from around their village.

What is the Daily life like for a member of the Kayapo tribe? • The way they live reflects on what they believe and their traditions. • The men usually go hunting for around four hours because it is relatively easy to catch pray and the women stay at the tribe's territory and look after the children and collect wood and things to make the territory more like a home. • When they come back they will prepare the dinner or help collect resources to use to sit around the fire or make the territory safer.

What do the Kayapo tribe eat? • The Kayapo mainly only eat what they can find or hunt for in the Amazon rainforest. • The Kayapo use their own home made weapons such as bone arrows spears and other weapons to hunt animals such as birds, monkeys, rodents and even fish. • The Kayapo tend to hunt in large groups so if they are hunting a larger animal it will be easier to kill and bring it back to the villages to feed on it. • For an easier option, the Kayapo sometimes eat insects. Kayapo children are brought up learning how to hunt insects and then working their way up to larger insects. • The Kayapo need to be extremely careful to make sure they don't catch any diseases from the animals or insects or eat the wrong ones even though the Kayapo are very highly skilled.

Traditions of the Kayapo • One of the most important traditions and customs from the Kayapo tribes are painting themselves with body paints they are encourages by each other to do this from when they are first born they try and symbolize the animals in the Amazon rainforest by painting similar animal patterns on there bodies. • The men also wear lip plates sometimes many women wear them too. • The Kayapo tribe have lip plates because large lips are considered beautiful. They are made by the Kayapo men, and the wear them as small babies, the tribe member has his or her lip cut and a small clay disk is inserted into there mouth/lip. As he or she grow, the disk will be removed and replaced with a bigger one. • The tribe member cannot remove the disk, or the lip will just sag. • The Kayapo also use the techniques slash and burn and shifting cultivation this can also be classed as a custom. They also sing and dance to celebrate special occasions.

What threats do the Kayapo face? • The Kayapo Indians of Brazil are a relatively threatened indigenous people. • The Kayapo are facing major issues that could potentially wipe out the tribe or force them to change their way of living completely. • They are threatened by many things such as gold mines, as the gold mines are eating into there homes and forests by cutting down trees.

Living with the Kayapo TASK: Imagine that you have just parachuted into the Amazon rainforest and have spent the week living with the Kayapo tribe. Your task is to write a blog , diary entry or postcard home describing what your experience was like. Use the success criteria below to help you. Success Criteria: 1. 2. 3. 4. Describe the location of the Amazon rainforest. Describe who the Kayapo tribe are. Describe how many people live in the Kayapo tribe. Describe what houses and villages are like for the Kayapo tribe. 5. Explain how the Kayapo tribe use the Amazon rainforest to survive. 6. Describe the traditions of the Kayapo tribe. 7. Explain what threats the Kayapo tribe face. 8. Explain the differences to your life. 9. Use lots of adjectives and be creative in your work! EXTENSION: Read through the letter from a member of the Akra tribe. Write a comparison between your life and theirs. What are the similarities? What are the differences?

Self Assessment Success Criteria: 1. Describe the location of the Amazon rainforest. 2. Describe who the Kayapo tribe are. 3. Describe how many people live in the Kayapo tribe. 4. Describe what houses and villages are like for the Kayapo tribe. 5. Explain how the Kayapo tribe use the Amazon rainforest to survive. 6. Describe the traditions of the Kayapo tribe. 7. Explain what threats the Kayapo tribe face. 8. Describe the differences to your life. 9. Use lots of adjectives and be creative in your work! WWW: EBI:

Dear My name is Akra my home is the Amazon Rainforest. I am part of the Awa tribe. In the Amazon we have cleared an area of trees to build our homes and plant our crops. My life is much different to yours. Each day I get up at 5. 00 am as the sun rises and go to bed as the sun sets. In my village we grow crops including, Beans, Corn and Bananas. For breakfast I collect the crops for my family to eat. I do not go to school, I help my family. Each day we hunt for food. We hunt for turtles and fish in the river catching them with arrows. We cook the food over a fire while it is fresh. I usually have fish for my lunch The rainforest is valuable to tribes as it has many resources we can use to build our homes, light our fires and provide medicines when we are sick. We live in Harmony with the rainforest and only use the resources we need We don’t have electricity to watch T. V or play computer games. For entertainment members of the tribe gather to dance and sometimes sing.