Joênia Wapixana and Minister Genro at the Indigenous Council of Roraima (2008)
Total population
15,500
Regions with significant populations
Brazil
9,441[1]
Guyana
6,000[1]
Venezuela
37[1]
Languages
Wapishana Various local languages
Religion
Animism, Christianity
The Wapishana or Wapichan (or Wapisiana, Wapitxana, Vapidiana, Wapixana) are an indigenous group found in the Roraima area of northern Brazil and southern Guyana.
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The Wapishana or Wapichan (or Wapisiana, Wapitxana, Vapidiana, Wapixana) are an indigenous group found in the Roraima area of northern Brazil and southern...
Wapishana (Wapixana) is an Arawakan language of Guyana and Brazil. It is spoken by over 13,000 people on both sides of the Guyana-Brazil border. In Brazil...
tribes reside in Guyana: the Wai Wai, Macushi, Patamona, Lokono, Kalina, Wapishana, Pemon, Akawaio and Warao. Historically dominated by the Lokono and Kalina...
Akawaio and Wai-Wai; and Arawakan languages such as Arawak (or Lokono) and Wapishana. Smock, Kirk (2008). Guyana: The Bradt Travel Guide. Bradt. pp. 19. ISBN 978...
(Aroã) † Wapixana (also known as Wapishana): Atorada (also known as Atoraí), Mapidian (also known as Maopidyán), Wapishana Ta-Maipurean Palikur Palikur (also...
savannah, Brazil, Guyana, and Venezuela Waiwai, Amazonas, Brazil and Guyana Wapishana (Also known as Uapixana, Vapidiana, Wapichan, Wapichana, Wapisana, Wapishshiana...
up of several distinct tribes or nations. Warao, Arawak, Caribs, and Wapishana are all represented in Guyana. Europeans arrived in the Guianas in the...
the National Assembly. He is of indigenous descent, specifically of the Wapishana and Macushi. In January 2020, he was charged with perversion of the course...
the Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo region. The name means 'forest' in the Wapishana language, a reference to the rich diversity of wildlife found there. The...
(1999) lists Mawayana (and possibly Mawakwa as a dialect) together with Wapishana under a Rio Branco (North-Arawak) branch of the Arawakan family. Carl-in...
South America. The term Pidjanan was coined by Sérgio Meira (2019) from Wapishana pidan ‘people’, as can be seen in the ethnonyms Wa-pishana and Mao-pidian...
(Arekuna) Qʼeqchiʼ (Kʼekchi) Sikiana (Kashuyana) Tiriyó Yucatec Waiwai Wapishana Warao (Guarauno) Wayana Ethnic groups In full member states: 73.78% Afro-Caribbean...
Mucoraceae, Zygomycota) by chewing it. Parakari is produced by Pemon, Wapishana, Macushi, Patamona tribes, and production was observed among the Wai-wai...
in the Rupununi/Kanuku mountain range. The Rupununi is the home of the Wapishana, Macushi, Wai-Wai and Patamona peoples. In 2012, the population of Amerindians...
languages Akawaio Macushi Waiwai Arawakan family Patamona Warrau Carib Wapishana Arekuna Other languages Guyanese Hindustani Languages of South Asia African...
Sawariwau (Wapishana: Sawari Wa'o) is a village in the Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo Region of Guyana. Sawariwau is inhabited by Wapishana Amerindians....
Maruranau (Wapishana: Marora Naawa; also: Maruranawa) is an indigenous village of Wapishana Amerindians in the Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo Region of Guyana...
inhabited by Wapishana, Macushi and other Amerindians. It is located near the Rupununi River. The main language spoken in the village is Wapishana with English...
Akawaio and Wai-Wai, and Arawakan languages such as Arawak (or Lokono) and Wapishana. Other languages include Chinese spoken by some members of the Chinese...
that grows there, which is used for producing lanceolate arrows by the Wapishana and Macushi peoples. Using this bamboo has the effect of paralyzing the...
Brazil and Guyana. Henri Ramirez (2019) considers it to be a dialect of Wapishana.: 33 Atorada at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) Ramirez...
December 12. On January 2, 1969, the Rupununi uprising by native Pemon and Wapishana led by Valerie Hart, with reported support from Venezuela, began with...
Melville, a half-Atorad tribeswoman. He spent months with the Amazonian Wapishana tribe and later obtained US patents for tipir and cunani, two chemicals...
Grosso do Sul (Guarani, under approval) Bonfim, Roraima (macushi) and (wapishana) Tocantínia, Tocantins (Akwê Xerente) Municipalities that have co-official...
refer to: Kanaima (froghopper), a genus of insects Kanaima, sorcerers in Wapishana beliefs This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...
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