• Detailed Terms of Reference can be uplifted from the Personnel Department, Ministry of Amerindian Affairs or by emailing [email protected] . (gov.gy)
  • Some 170 tractors and trailers have been distributed by the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs to hinterland villages and Amerindian settlements across Guyana, as the administration advances agriculture development in these areas to achieve food security locally and regionally. (gov.gy)
  • Amerindian Heritage Month is an annual observance that is held every September in Guyana in honour of Guyana's indigenous peoples. (wikipedia.org)
  • Athens, Ga. - University of Georgia farm experts are helping the Amerindians of Guyana grow peanuts better. (uga.edu)
  • The Amerindians live in the Rupununi region in southern Guyana, known for its vast savannah. (uga.edu)
  • Scientists call the variety the Amerindians grow the Guyana Jumbo. (uga.edu)
  • The Amerindians of Guyana have a lot of land and water at their disposal to grow a crop like peanuts, he said. (uga.edu)
  • An Act to make provision for the good government of the Amerindian communities of Guyana. (landportal.org)
  • This Act provides for local government of Amerindians, i.e. an Indian who is a member of a tribe indigenous to Guyana. (landportal.org)
  • This outcry for justice stems from a comprehensive petition filed by the village council of the indigenous Carib community of Chinese Landing, the Amerindian Peoples Association of Guyana, and the Forest Peoples Programme. (guyanastandard.com)
  • President Dr Irfaan Ali reassured residents of Orealla, Corentyne River, Region Six, that Amerindians are equally important to the development of Guyana. (newsroom.gy)
  • But I could not visit all of your villages and territories, those of the different Amerindian nations, dispersed throughout the many regions of Canada, and those of the Inuit whose familiar horizons of snow and ice are near the north pole. (cccb.ca)
  • A longitudinal entomological survey was carried out from March 2000-February 2002 in three Amerindian villages, namely Twenké, Taluène and Cayodé, located in the Amazonian forest of the Upper-Maroni area, to assess anopheline mosquitoes and malaria transmission dynamics. (scielo.br)
  • Impregnated hammock and/or bed nets, coupled with the use of mosquito repellents, as well as the early treatment of malarial cases, appear to be the most suitable tools for fighting malaria in these Amerindian villages since the spraying of residual insecticides is inefficient because of vector biology and the housing structure. (scielo.br)
  • Many farm chemicals and fertilizers aren't easily available to the Amerindians' remote villages. (uga.edu)
  • For this purpose Amerindian Districts, Amerindian Areas and Amerindian Villages are established.The Act also provides for the protection of property of Amerindians and establishes the Amerindian Purposes Fund. (landportal.org)
  • This update was provided by the Minister of Amerindian Affairs, Pauline Sukhai during an interview on the sidelines of a recent visit to Rewa, North Rupununi, Region Nine. (gov.gy)
  • Undeterred, the Amerindian beneficiaries persisted in seeking justice, presenting their case to the judiciary in March 2021. (guyanastandard.com)
  • The Amerindian Admixture Index and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) assessed the ethnicity and degree of racial admixture. (nih.gov)
  • All Mapuches, 88% of Hispanics, but none of Maoris had Amerindian mtDNA haplotypes. (nih.gov)
  • Frequencies of the four major Amerindian mtDNA haplogroups in the population of Montevideo, Uruguay. (scienceopen.com)
  • Factor IX Gene Haplotypes in Amerindians " by Rendrik F. Franco, Amélia G. Araújo et al. (wayne.edu)
  • Only five haplotypes were identified within the entire Amerindian study population, and the haplotype distribution was significantly different among the five tribes, with one (Arara) to four (Wayampf) haplotypes being found per tribe. (wayne.edu)
  • globin gene cluster haplotypes but agree with our recent findings on the distribution of a-globin gene cluster haplotypes and the allele frequencies for six VNTRs in the same Amerindian tribes. (wayne.edu)
  • This study was conducted to determine the prevalence of HBV, HCV, and HDV in urban populations and Amerindians living in the state of Tocantins (Eastern Amazon). (biomedcentral.com)
  • Overall low prevalence of HBV and HCV infection was found in the populations studied, but high HBV and HCV prevalence was observed in Amerindians compared to non-Amerindians suggesting that these individuals have a higher likelihood of acquiring to these infections. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The results of the haplotype distribution and the allele frequencies for each of the factor IX gene polymorphisms in Amerindians were similar to the results reported for Asian populations but differed from results for other ethnic groups. (wayne.edu)
  • Our data represent the first study of factor IX-associated polymorphisms in Amerindian populations and emphasizes the applicability of these genetic markers for population and human evolution studies. (wayne.edu)
  • Parasitoses intestinais em povoaçoes recentemente contactadas e em aculturaçao / Epidemiologic studies among Amerindian populations of Amazonia. (bvsalud.org)
  • It must also be said that from the middle of the seventeenth century, the Amerindian peoples and, in their time, the Inuit, welcomed the news of Jesus Christ. (cccb.ca)
  • On 10 September 1995, Guyana's Prime Minister, Cheddi Jagan, officially designated September as Amerindian Heritage Month. (wikipedia.org)
  • Amerindian Heritage Month has its beginnings in Amerindian commemorations of 10 September 1957 - the day on which Stephen Campbell became Guyana's first Amerindian Member of Parliament. (wikipedia.org)
  • The consequences of State claims to, and controls over, the territories of Guyana's Indigenous Peoples (Amerindians) are traced through successive Dutch and British colonial to post-Independence governments. (scienceopen.com)
  • They devoted their lives to the evangelization and the support of many Amerindian groups by sharing their life, by becoming the pastors and the bishops of those who believed. (cccb.ca)
  • Parang, utilizing both Spanish and Amerindian musical instruments, emerged from the evangelization of the Amerindians. (chaguaramas.com)
  • A total of 948 individuals were recruited in Tocantinopolis city (Tocantins state) of whom 603 were Amerindians (from 6 tribes) and 345 were non-Amerindians (6 urban areas of Tocantinópolis city). (biomedcentral.com)
  • Before European explorers landed on the Caribbean islands, peaceful tribes of Amerindians called the Arawaks inhabited the entire Caribbean archipelago. (chaguaramas.com)
  • All of Trinidad was populated by several tribes, Trinidad being a transit point in the Caribbean network of Amerindian trade and exchange, they used a bartering system between the tribes Trinidad was very important in Amerindian trade, as it was a major trade hub between the Caribbean islands and the South American continent. (chaguaramas.com)
  • To double-check these observations regarding the ancient world, Finch turned to modern studies of Tsimane Amerindians, an indigenous people of the Bolivian Amazon. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Church leaders targeted the city of Otavalo in part due to its large Amerindian population and special interest to commence missionary efforts among the suggested descendents of Book of Mormon peoples. (cumorah.com)
  • Anti-delta antibodies were found among Amerindians from Eastern Amazon suggesting a risk for this population. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Of note is that nearly half of Amerindians had no anti-HBs, indicating a need for HBV vaccination campaigns in this population. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In 2010 the Brazilian census estimated the population of Amerindians at 896,917 individuals, corresponding to 0.47% of the general population with nearly half of them living in the Northern region of the country [ 13 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • HBsAg prevalence varies from 0 to 20.6%, Anti-HDV from 0 to 7.7% [ 7 ] and anti-HCV from 1.4 to 1.6% [ 14 ] in the Northern Amerindian population. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This study was conducted to estimate the prevalence rates of HBV, HCV and HDV markers between Amerindians and the general population residing in the state of Tocantins (Eastern Amazon) located in the Northern region of Brazil. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Amerindians make up 7 percent of the population. (uga.edu)
  • ATXN10 Microsatellite Distribution in a Peruvian Amerindian Population. (cdc.gov)
  • Based on the deviations and stoppages in energy infrastructures that occurred given the COVID-19 pandemic, this contribution proposes to analyze the notions of Energy Communities from the Amerindian Thought. (bvsalud.org)
  • [11] In 1981, the Church created its first all-Amerindian stake in South America among the Otavalo. (cumorah.com)
  • Brown, S 1996, ' 'An Eighteenth-Century Historian on the Amerindians: Culture, Colonialism and Christianity ', William Robertson's History of America', Studies in World Christianity , vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 204-22. (ed.ac.uk)
  • Informaţii despre zodiacul indienilor din America (totemic, amerindian, nativ american). (e-strology.ro)
  • Amerindians receive few economic benefits from natural resources operations on either their legally titled communal lands or customary lands. (scienceopen.com)
  • In 1783 Trinidad's Amerindians were displaced from their lands to make way for the influx of French planters and their African slaves. (chaguaramas.com)
  • It was the first point of trade with the larger continent and the Venezuelan Amerindian Tribe known as the Waraoo. (chaguaramas.com)
  • Cultic Myths and/or Ecology in AmerIndian Cultures" is a personal and modest search for authenticity in AmerIndian cultic myth to locate and separate the ecological and the cultic. (smwc.edu)
  • Renowned for long-distancing running and living in log homes and caves, the Tarahumara are an Amerindian people that inhabit rural areas of the Sierra Madre Occidental Mountains in Chihuahua, Mexico. (cumorah.com)
  • The Santa Rosa Carib Community is the last remaining organized group of people identifying with an Amerindian identity and way of life. (chaguaramas.com)
  • Specifically, it focuses on the situation lived by a group of Amerindian people displaced from the Amazon and now settled in Bogotá. (siqueirabarrashenry.com)
  • Overall anti-Delta prevalence was 0.3% and regarding anti-HBc reactive individuals, anti-delta prevalence was 3.4 and 0% in Amerindians and non-Amerindians respectively. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Viral hepatitis is higher in the Northern areas where many Amerindians live, and even within this region prevalence varies between different areas. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Over the centuries, dear Amerindian and Inuit peoples, you have gradually discovered in your cultures special ways of living your relationship with God and with the world while remaining loyal to Jesus and to the Gospel. (cccb.ca)
  • Studies of Amerindian creations with a "pragmatic approach" are particularly stimulating as they further underline the importance of ritual action for the engagement with material culture. (forarthistory.org.uk)
  • The earliest history of Chaguaramas, substantiated by names such as Macqueripe and chacachacare is of the saladoid Amerindians occupation between 100 - 400 a.d. (chaguaramas.com)
  • [3] more than any other Amerindian group in northern Mexico. (cumorah.com)
  • Numbering somewhere between 45,000 [1] and 300,000, [2] the Otavalo Quichua or Imbabura Highland Quichua are an Amerindian group in Ecuador generally referred to simply as the Otavalo. (cumorah.com)
  • The colonial governments' approach to Amerindians was protectionist, but the Amerindian land rights were not codified in law. (scienceopen.com)
  • In 1759 the Mission of Arima was formed, consolidated and enlarged in 1785, and the Amerindians were to have had control of 2,000 acres of land. (chaguaramas.com)
  • The Amerindian life of trade still influences us to date, as many existing roadways used today where based on old Amerindian footpaths. (chaguaramas.com)
  • While I quite understand the thoughts of the Amerindians who abandoned Cortes, I must note that this does damage to the idea that Cortes conquered Mexico City with an overwhelming force. (lawrencehelm.com)
  • To plant a field, the Amerindians drag a hoe, or a board that has many hoes fixed to it, across the ground to make rows. (uga.edu)
  • Chaguaramas itself is an Amerindian word describing the once palm- fringed shoreline. (chaguaramas.com)
  • The histories of major towns such as Arima and Siparia, two large former Amerindian Mission Towns, have given us Trinidad's two oldest festivals: The Santa Rosa Festival of Arima, and La Divina Pastora in Siparia. (chaguaramas.com)
  • Trinidad was very important in Amerindian Trade, as it was an integral part of the Amerindian society and served as a major trade hub between the other Caribbean islands and the south American continent. (chaguaramas.com)
  • As [the author] has demonstrated, one will never know the real Darío unless one considers the indigenous influence in his work, since his poetry is the product of his Amerindian soul and his Mestizo identity. (mellenpress.com)
  • The official opening of Amerindian Heritage Month celebrations takes place at the Umana Yana on the first day of September. (wikipedia.org)
  • The work uncovers indigenous thematic, symbolic, mythological, and stylistic influences in Darío's poetry, and reveals his deep social concerns along with the duality of his poetic inspiration, both European and Amerindian. (mellenpress.com)
  • In response to Resolution 41/2023 issued by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), the government is set to dispatch a diverse team to investigate disturbing allegations of environmental degradation and human rights violations perpetrated against Amerindians residing at Chinese Landing in Region One. (guyanastandard.com)