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Junkilinduruta

Junkilinduruta is the voice the Junkili people give to their land.

The Junkili is a native tribe that lives in a secluded area in the South West of the Amazon rain forest in Northern Bolivia. in the indigenous territory around the meandering subsidiary water courses to the Bolivian part of the Madre de Dios river, South of the Orthon river.

Language/dialect: Junkino

Tribe size: around 200 members (a family-style enlarged group)

Contact with the Junkili has been sporadic due to their nomadic way of life. This nomadic habit allows the regeneration of the ruta (ruta is the Junkino voice for land) through a period of rest following the last occupation.

The Junkino voice lindu refers to the total regeneration of the land achieved after a previous occupation event. The length of the resting period averages a full year, but not uncommonly the leaders skip a particular place when understanding its regeneration has not been achieved in full, extending the recovery. This is called bili, which may translate to 'keep moving' or 'not here' or 'not yet'.

Interestingly, one indication the leaders use to understand that the resting period has been sufficient is the return of a toad[1] to the creeks that were previously disturbed by the Junkili occupants. The voice for this toad is pipa.

Upon deliberation, the leaders declare either that it is time to stay, with the voice rutalindu, or that the place must be skipped (with the voice rutabili) and that they must carry on to the next one, as well as the pipa has also decided suit demonstrated by its absence.

Further reading
  • Nomadism
  • Isolated nomads are under siege in the Amazon Jungle
  • Nomad agriculture: Slash and Burn and Wetland Agriculture
  1. ^ "Pipidae".
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