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U'wa people

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in 1998. The conflict came to a head as Oxy prepared to drill at the Gibraltar 1 test site. The U'wa, who had previously threatened to commit mass suicide if the oil extraction project went forward, constructed a small village on the site of the drillsite. They also set up numerous roadblocks and a
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The U'wa were grouped into eight clans from time immemorial to the 20th century. Three clans survived their dramatic population loss in the last hundred years and structure their communal life today: Kubaruwa (Cobaria), Tagrinuwa (Tegria) and Kaibaká (Bokota), each of which includes multiple
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in the Association of Cabildos and Traditional Indigenous Authorities of the Department of Arauca (ASCATIDAR), officially founded in June 2003 to promote the local autonomy of the department's indigenous peoples. The Association's president is Dario Tulivila, a Guahibo leader.
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Their religious tradition includes an obligation to gather in the summer months and "sing the world into being" as well as to maintain equilibrium between the layers of the world: earth, water, oil, mountains, and sky. Their identification of
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The U'wa have been engaged in a major project of land recovery, expanding their recognized territory from 1,000 square kilometres (250,000 acres) to 2,200 square kilometres (540,000 acres) Unified Reserve
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The U'wa are known to neighboring indigenous peoples as "the thinking people" or "the people who speak well". They were formerly called
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dislodged the protesters from the site, no commercially viable deposits were found. The U'wa were then in a new dispute with
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and covers more than 12,000 square kilometres (4,600 sq mi). The area includes the headwaters of the
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The U'wa organize their political life in a collection of institutions known to the outside world as the
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Stoddart, D.R. (1962). "Myth and Ceremonial among the Tunebo Indians of Eastern Colombia".
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The U'wa inhabited the highlands of northernmost Boyacá and western Arauca and Casanare.
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seek to drill on their land. Their representative to the outside world in this struggle,
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Map of Chibcha languages; the U'wa are represented by the easternmost yellow dot
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They gained international visibility in a 14-year-long struggle to prevent
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The U'wa consider non-U'wa to be impure, and place high importance on
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Indigenous people living in the cloud forests of northeastern Colombia
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communities. The U'wa population includes some 822 families.
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coordinated (together with neighboring campesinos and the
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drilling on their land, which secured the withdrawal of
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Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law
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This body is made up of Werjayás (wise 663: 661: 657: 277:The U'wa ancestral homeland, known as 696:from the original on 17 October 2015. 241:The U'wa people live in northeastern 7: 782:Rainforest Action Network background 61:Regions with significant populations 791:Minority Rights Group International 828:Ancestry and ethnicity in Colombia 579:The U'wa have affiliated with the 180:, but today prefer to be known as 25: 513:The U'wa speak a language of the 3371:People from Santander Department 3325: 3324: 2999:Conquest of the Chibchan Nations 2621: 748:The Journal of American Folklore 617: 603: 188:Struggle to prevent oil drilling 67: 3366:People from Casanare Department 729:IC Magazine (International Cry) 3351:Indigenous peoples in Colombia 3294:Archaeology Museum of Sogamoso 1617:Race and ethnicity in Colombia 1: 3361:People from Boyacá Department 3356:People from Arauca Department 2974:Pedro Fernández de Valenzuela 2700:Diego de Torres y Moyachoque 667:UNESCO Centre of Catalonia, 562:U'wa Traditional Authorities 556:U'wa leader Berito Kubaru'wa 495: 492: 487: 474: 463: 460: 455: 442: 431: 428: 423: 418: 407: 404: 399: 394: 383: 380: 375: 358: 347: 344: 339: 334: 3299:Archaeology Museum of Pasca 218:Goldman Environmental Prize 3387: 3304:Metropolitan Museum of Art 2969:Ortún Velázquez de Velasco 2907:Bartolomé Camacho Zambrano 1793:Battle of Chocontá (~1490) 304: 3320: 3043: 3032: 3014:Battle of Tocarema (1538) 2964:Miguel Holguín y Figueroa 2835: 2822: 2619: 2509: 2498: 2233: 2222: 1988:Ubaté-Chiquinquirá Valley 1895: 1884: 1678: 1667: 1602: 793:. 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Index

Uwa people

Colombia
Arauca
Boyacá
Casanare
Santander
Northern Santander
Uw Cuwa
Colombian Spanish
Muisca
Lache
Guane
Guahibo
indigenous people
cloud forests
Colombia
Venezuela
oil
Royal Dutch Shell
Occidental Petroleum
Ecopetrol
Repsol YPF
Berito Kuwaru'wa
Goldman Environmental Prize
Guahibo
Colombian military
Ecopetrol
Colombia
Arauca

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