Sightings or encounters with mysterious natives of the Amazon rainforest
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White Amazonian Indians or White Indians is a term first applied to sightings or encounters with mysterious white skinned natives of the Amazon Rainforest from the 16th century by Spanish missionaries. These encounters and tales sparked Percy Fawcett's journey into the uncharted jungle of the Amazonian Mato Grosso region. Various theories since the early 20th century have been proposed regarding the documented sightings or encounters.
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WhiteAmazonianIndians or WhiteIndians is a term first applied to sightings or encounters with mysterious white skinned natives of the Amazon Rainforest...
Yanoama: The Story of Helena Valero, a Girl Kidnapped by AmazonianIndians (original Italian title Yanoáma: dal racconto di una donna rapita dagli Indi)...
theories Nordic aliens Blond Eskimos WhiteAmazonianIndians The Man Who Would Be King Magelssen, S. (2016). "White-Skinned Gods: Thor Heyerdahl, the Kon-Tiki...
"Amazonian dark earth" or "Indian black earth". In Portuguese its full name is terra preta do índio or terra preta de índio ("black soil of the Indian"...
The Amazonian manatee (Trichechus inunguis) is a species of manatee that lives in the Amazon Basin in Brazil, Peru, Colombia and Ecuador. It has thin...
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(Service for the Protection of Indians, today the FUNAI, or Fundação Nacional do Índio, National Foundation for Indians). SPI was the first federal agency...
four living species in the order Sirenia: the Amazonian manatee (Trichechus inunguis), the West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus), and the West African...
Rubber, also called India rubber, latex, Amazonian rubber, caucho, or caoutchouc, as initially produced, consists of polymers of the organic compound...
States, including their descendants, were commonly called American Indians, or simply Indians domestically and since the late 20th century the term Native American...
The Amazonian brown brocket (Mazama nemorivaga), also known as the small brown brocket, is a small species of deer that is almost entirely restricted...
18th century by the Comte de Buffon, who believed they were native to Amazonian jungles. Amazona contains about thirty species of parrots, such as the...
Santo Daime, União do Vegetal and Barquinha, which blend elements of Amazonian Shamanism, Christianity, Kardecist Spiritism, and African-Brazilian religions...
differ from both whitewater and clearwater rivers. The classification of Amazonian rivers into black, clear, and whitewater was first proposed by Alfred...
peoples, Pueblo-dwelling peoples, Amazonian tribes, or LDN peoples (Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota peoples). Although "Indian" has been the most common collective...
territory, amounting to more than 3,344 territories. Historically, indigenous Amazonian peoples have relied on the forest for various needs such as food, shelter...
small and white, arranged in thyrses. The fruit is spherical and red, 6–7 mm (0.24–0.28 in) in diameter. I. guayusa is native to the upper Amazonian regions...
Yucuna, Kuna, Yuqui, Tikuna, Yagua, Arakmbut, Ka'apor, Canelos-Quichua, Amazonian Kichwas and Shipibo-Conibo.[page needed] "Jagua tattoo" is a term used...
kidnapped young, primarily white and mestiço Brazilian men from Northeastern Brazil and transported them into the Amazonian interior to harvest rubber...
customs of the Indians, with whom they converse everyday. They make use of the tobacco pipes, shoes, garters, and girdles of the Indians.” -Peter Kalm...
was an important part of the economic and social history of Brazil and Amazonian regions of neighboring countries, being related to the extraction and...
but tipped with white. The underside of the tail is white, and the deer can fan the white hairs out in a distinctive alarm display. Indian hog deer have...
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