How to Use Yanomami in a Sentence
Yanomami
noun-
The Yanomami didn’t come into regular contact with the outside world until the 1940s.
—João Paulo Pires, Washington Post, 2023-04-18
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Some of the Yanomami and their defenders praise Cartier’s promotion of Yanomami causes.
—Fabiano Maisonnave, Fortune, 2023-05-15
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Later, the two visited the territory of the Yanomami people, a huge reserve in the northern Amazon.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 2023-04-03
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Keen to send a clear message from the start, Lula made expelling the wildcat miners from the Yanomami reserve one of his first major acts since taking office on Jan. 1.
—Ana Ionova, The Christian Science Monitor, 2023-04-17
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In early February, Brazil deployed hundreds of police and soldiers to evict gold miners accused of causing a humanitarian crisis on the Yanomami Indigenous reservation, as thousands of the miners fled.
—Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 2023-03-03
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