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h2. How do they live? Most Indians live in settled villages by the rivers, and grow vegetables and fruits like manioc, corn, beans and bananas. <p><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="175" style="float: right; margin-left: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.4em"> <tbody><tr> <td> <a href="/lib/img/gallery/Image_Galleries/yanomami/ecard/BRA-YANO-FAMILY-VE1980_ecard.jpg" class="lightview"><img style="border: 1px solid #3d3d3d" src="/lib/img/gallery/Image_Galleries/yanomami/news/BRA-YANO-FAMILY-VE1980_news.jpg" title="The Yanomami live in Roraima state, Brazil, and across the border in Venezuela" width="175" height="132" /></a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 4px; color: #666;"><strong>The Yanomami </strong> live in Roraima state, Brazil, and across the border in Venezuela</td> </tr> </tbody></table></p> They also hunt and fish, using plant-based poisons to stun the fish. Some tribes use shotguns for hunting, others use bows and arrows, spears, or blowguns with darts tipped with curare. Only a few Amazonian tribes are nomadic; they tend to live deep in the forest away from the rivers. They grow some crops but rely more on hunting and gathering. Today, most Indians in the Amazon have access to ‘Western’ healthcare and education. When these are controlled by the Indians themselves they are usually very successful. h2. What are their problems? Almost all the Indians’ problems revolve around land: outsiders either want their land, or something on or underneath it. The key threats are a massive boom in oil and gas exploration, rampant illegal logging and the rapid spread of ranching and farming. h3. Land = Life Indian tribes whose lands are respected generally thrive. But in Brazil Indians have no communal land ownership rights, while in Peru and Colombia many villages secured land title decades ago, but governments and companies regularly ride rough-shod over their rights. <object width="390" height="315"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/O4wvWeXc06A&hl=en&fs=1&fmt=18" ></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/O4wvWeXc06A&hl=en&fs=1&fmt=18" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="390" height="315"></embed></object><span style="font-size: 0.9em; color: #666;">Indians from Brazil's Raposa-Serra do Sol indigenous area tell Survival about their lands and lives</span> Five centuries after the first Europeans entered Amazonia, many Indians are still dying at the hands of outsiders, and entire tribes continue to face the threat of annihilation. h2. Take action Amazon tribes need your help. Survival will send you a *free Amazon tribes info pack* including an _Amazon_ bulletin sheet, an _Uncontacted Tribes_ DVD and our book on Indians in Brazil, _Disinherited_. Just fill in your name address and e-mail below (Survival will not pass your details on to any other organisation). <img src="/lib/img/content/amazon-leaflet.png" width="57" height="80" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px;" /><div style="float: left;"><form action="/info/thanks" method="POST"><input type="hidden" name="recipient" value="info" /><input type="hidden" name="type" value="New Amazon info pack request" /><input type="hidden" name="flash" value="We will send you a free Amazon information pack shortly." /><small>NAME</small> <input type="text" name="name" /> <small>ADDRESS</small> <textarea name="address"></textarea> <small>E-MAIL</small> <input type="text" name="e-mail" /> <input type="submit" value="Send »" /> </form> </div> <div class="clearer"> </div> Survival's most urgent campaigns in the Amazon are for the "*Nukak*":/tribes/nukak, two thirds of whom have died in the 20 years since contact, for "*Peru's uncontacted Indians*":/tribes/isolatedperu under threat from oil companies and loggers, and for the "*Indians of Raposa-Serra do Sol*":/tribes/raposa, whose lands are under siege by violent rice farmers.

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notextile. <span style="font-size: 1.15em;"> *The Amazon is the world’s largest rainforest. It is also the ancestral home of 1 million Indians.* They are divided into about 400 tribes, each with its own language, culture and territory. Many have had contact with outsiders for almost 500 years. Others – ‘uncontacted’ tribes – have had no contact at all. notextile. </span>

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