News of this people
- A decadência do indigenismo brasileiro
08/06/2013 - Os índios, a legislação e quem a desrespeita
31/05/2013 - Operação vistoria mais de 129 mil veículos e destrói pista clandestina em terra indígena
28/05/2013
Inhabited lands
- Yanomami
Yanomami
- Other names
Yanoama, Yanomani, Ianomami -
Where they are How many RR/AM 19.338 (DSEI Yanomami - Sesai, 2011) Venezuela 16.000 (2009) - Linguistic family
Yanomami
The Northern Perimeter road
The two main forms of contact initially known to the Yanomami – first with the extraction frontier and later with the missionary frontier – coexisted until the start of the 1970s as a dominant conjunction of forces within their territory. However, the 1970s were marked (especially in Roraima) by the implementation of development projects under the aegis of the ‘National Integration Plan’ launched by the military governments during the period. This basically involved the opening of a section of the Northern Perimeter road (1973-76) and public colonization programs (1978-79) which invaded the southeast of Yanomami lands. During this same period, the RADAM Amazonian Resources Survey Project (1975) detected the existence of important mineral ore deposits in the region.
The publicity given to the mineralogical potential of the Yanomami territory unleashed an gradual invasion of propsectors, which became worse at the end of the 1980s and from 1987 onwards took the form of a full-scale gold rush.
