Nukak

Also known as Nukak-Maku

Key facts

Ethnic group.image: Tigi Nukak.jpg
Ethnic group.image_caption: A Nukak mother and child, 1993
Ethnic group.group: Nukak
Ethnic group.population: 968
Ethnic group.total_year: 2023
Ethnic group.popplace: San José del Guaviare settlements: 210-250, Nukak Reservation: estimated at 500
Ethnic group.rels: Animist
Ethnic group.langs: NukakSpanish (rare)
Ethnic group.related: KãkwãOther Makú peoples like Hupdu

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Population: 744
Image: Tigi Nukak.jpg

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History
Food acquisition
Hunting
Fishing
Gathering
Shifting cultivation
Society
Language
Endangered status
References
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The Nukak people (also Nukak-Makú) live between the Guaviare and Inírida rivers, in the depths of the tropical humid forest, on the fringe of the Amazon basin, in Guaviare Department, Republic of Colombia. They are nomadic hunter-gatherers with seasonal nomadic patterns and practice small-scale shifting horticulture. They were classified as an "uncontacted people" until 1981, and have since lost half of their population primarily to disease. Part of their territory has been used by coca growers, ranchers, and other settlers, as well as being occupied by guerrillas, army and paramilitaries. Responses to this crisis of land loss have included protests, requests for assimilation, and the suicide of leader Maw-be'. An estimated 210–250 Nukak people live in provisional settlements at San José del Guaviare, while around the same number live nomadically in the Nukak Reservation (Resguardo).

== History ==