Amazon Basin: Vanishing Cultures by staff
	List Price:   $7.95 Unit Price:   $6.36 You Save:   $1.59 (20%) ISBN-10:   1600601251 ISBN-13:   9781600601255 Publisher:   Lee & Low Books Category:   Non-Fiction Pages:   32 Format:   Picture Book
Awards
2004  CLA Book of the Year for Children Award  Nominee/Honoree  2007  California Young Reader Medal  Nominee/Honoree  2005  Georgia Children's Picture StoryBook Award  Winner!  2003  ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards  Nominee/Honoree
Subjects
INDIANS OF SOUTH AMERICA_JUVENILE LITERATURE
Description/Notes
'Describes, in text and photographs, the vanishing culture of the Yanomama, a primitive group that lives in the Amazon Territory of Venezuela'--Provided by publisher. Tuwenowa lives in the heart of the Amazon River Basin, home to the largest tropical rain forest in the world. For Yanomama people such as Tuwenowa and his family, the jungle provides everything they need-from thatching for their huts to the tropical fruits, animals, and fish they eat. The rainforest is the birthplace of the centuries-old traditions of Yanomama culture. The people celebrate life with songs of thanks and mark death with special rituals. By learning these customs from his father, a tribal shaman, Tuwenowa hopes to uphold the Yanomama way of life as he grows up.