Word: aguaruna
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Dates: during 1967-1967
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...remoter areas, the road is changing whole cultures. For hundreds of years, northern Peru's Aguaruna Indians lived in secluded families rather than communities, dressed in dingy loincloths and bird plumage, and let their women do most of the work while they went off to hunt or war with Ecuador's head-shrinking Jivaros. Now, the Indians-spiffed up in khaki pants and cotton sports shirts-are working on road gangs, settling into villages, and even taking up farming, cattle raising and carpentry...
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