HELP THE NUKAK
THE NUKAK
The Last Nomadic People
Located in southeast Colombia, the Nukak are the last nomadic people of the Amazon. They live between the Guaviare and Inírida rivers(“The Nukak”). While moving from place to place within the Amazon, they are constantly hunting, gathering, fishing, and farming(Sessana). Around 600 of them remain today(George). They travel throughout the forest in smaller groups of 50 to 60 people with very few possessions. The men are known to hunt and the women tend to gather and take care of the young while the group as a whole cultivates. The men hunt almost anything except dears, which are considered sacred. Meanwhile, the women gather plants, fruits, vegetables, and other resources. They usually set up their huts near a water source where plant and animal resources are high in addition to a fertile landscape(Sessana). They use the Amazon for almost the entirety of their resources and are known to be some of the most ingenious jungle dwellers.
1988
A Large Amount of Knowledge Remains Unknown
The Nukak remained uncontacted until 1988 when a group of around 40 of them accidentally stumbled upon a new-founded colonist town called Calamar("The Nukak"). Until this day, nothing was none of the Nukak, but ever since then, we have learned a fair bit about their culture, but there is still much to learn of their history, traditions, and who they are as individuals. This day also marked the start of a tragic era for the Nukak as the would face many problems within the next thirty years and continue to face problems today.