Uitoto

E908812

Amerindian people Indigenous people ethnic group

Uitoto are an Indigenous people of the northwestern Amazon rainforest, known for their complex oral traditions, ritual use of coca and tobacco, and distinctive Witotoan languages.

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Label	Occurrences
Uitoto canonical	1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Amerindian people ⓘ Indigenous people ⓘ ethnic group ⓘ
affectedBy	forced labor during rubber boom ⓘ rubber boom atrocities ⓘ
associatedWithRiver	Caquetá River NERFINISHED ⓘ Putumayo River NERFINISHED ⓘ
continent	South America ⓘ
cosmology	myths of world creation ⓘ
culturalRegion	Northwestern Amazonia NERFINISHED ⓘ
ethnicGroupOf	Colombia NERFINISHED ⓘ Peru NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasAlternativeName	Huitoto NERFINISHED ⓘ Witoto NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasCulturalElement	chant-based storytelling ⓘ mythic narratives ⓘ ritual songs ⓘ
hasCulturalPractice	communal longhouse ceremonies ⓘ ritual use of coca ⓘ ritual use of tobacco ⓘ
hasOralTradition	complex oral literature ⓘ
languageFamily	Witotoan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
languageStatus	endangered ⓘ
locatedIn	Amazon Basin NERFINISHED ⓘ northwestern Amazon rainforest ⓘ
neighboringGroup	Bora people NERFINISHED ⓘ Muinane people NERFINISHED ⓘ Ocaina people NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf	Witotoan peoples NERFINISHED ⓘ
populationTrend	decline during late 19th and early 20th centuries ⓘ
region	Amazonas Department of Colombia NERFINISHED ⓘ Caquetá River region NERFINISHED ⓘ Loreto Region of Peru NERFINISHED ⓘ Putumayo River region NERFINISHED ⓘ
religion	animism ⓘ
speaks	Huitoto language NERFINISHED ⓘ Minica language NERFINISHED ⓘ Murui language NERFINISHED ⓘ Nipode language ⓘ
traditionalHousing	maloca longhouse ⓘ
traditionalSubsistence	fishing ⓘ gathering forest products ⓘ hunting ⓘ swidden horticulture ⓘ
usesPlant	coca ⓘ tobacco ⓘ
writesIn	Latin script ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Huitoto (Witoto) → hasAlternativeName → Uitoto ⓘ

subject surface form: Huitoto