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  • Cirilo Grefa plays with paper boats at his home in San Pedro Sumino.
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  • Kichwa kids play and bathe in the Napo river .
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  • A family cleans up the nets after fishing at night in the Napo River near the community of San Pedro Sumino.  The Napo River is in the Ecuadorean jungle and feeds into the Amazon. The original tribes who have inhabited these lands are still here, the Kichwas. They live off their land and the river, their community is very tight and they all work for the common good.
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  • Thalia Ashanga bathes in the river while one of her aunts washes clothes.
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  • A woman serves up Yuca, a root eaten by the Kichwa people, both in drink form or cooked. The drink is called “chicha,” a beverage offered at all times of the day.  To not accept it when offered is an insult to Kichwas.  When you first enter their house, chicha is like a strong handshake.  It  is a covenant, allowing  strangers to build a trusting friendship.
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  • The men of the community haul a canoe out to the river to test it, after making it from scratch. This canoe will be used to transport the people of the community up and down the river without having to pay much for this service.
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  • Three Kichwa boys play cards while they fish at night in the Napo River near the community of San Pedro Sumino.   They caught five carachamas (a type of fish) and one pirhana.
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  • Lorena Grefa washes her family clothes. In the Kichwa families all the kids help out, be it harvesting, fishing or taking care of the younger kids. Lorena lives with his parents and her little baby while her husband comes back from enlisting in the military services for two years.
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  • A family cruises along the Napo near the community of San Pedro Sumino. The river is their main source of transportation back to their home.
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  • A kid holds the string attached to his pet beattle in a preschool in the community of San Pedro Sumino. Kids in this preschool, the kids get breakfast and lunch, which helps with the families economies.
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  • Blanca Ashanga harvests corn in a community field. All the community works in what they call a "Minga" where everyone contributes and harvest for the community.  The proceeds of selling the corn will be used for services in the community.
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  • The Grefa kids at their home in San Pedro Sumino. The middle kid is a cousin who has moved in with the Grefas. He enjoys reading to his younger cousin during a rainy evening.
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  • Gregorio Grefa makes a balsa canoe from scratch for his brother in law in the community of San Pedro Sumino. Being one of the only people to own a chainsaw in the community, Gregorio gets called for a lot of work.  He said the community helped him build his house, for which he is just paying back the favor to everyone else.
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  • Colombia, Leticia, 2010. Cargador. <br />
Amazonas está apenas a 90 metros sobre el nivel del mar. No hay viento ni sombra. Para sobrevivir, algunos indígenas transportan a pie las pesadas mercancías que llegaron por el río. Hasta 80 kilos pueden alcanzar estos racimos de plátano, verdura básica de la alimentación lugareña que, antes de llegar a la cocina, se pasean por húmedos, polvorientos y calurosos paisajes.<br />
. Shipper. <br />
Amazon is only 90 meters above sea-level. There is no wind nor shade. In order to survive, some of the indigenous people transport their heavy merchandise to the river by foot.  These bunches of bananas can reach up to 80 kilos,  they are the basic vegetable of the village, which before arriving at the kitchen, have to be walked through humid, dusty and warm landscapes.
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  • Colombia, Leticia, 2010. Triple frontera. <br />
Es día de mercado. Desde Perú, una familia llega al puerto de Leticia para vender su cosecha de plátanos. Como los colombianos, pertenecen a la etnia Tikuna. Para ellos la frontera es imaginaria; comparten la misma cultura y hasta la adaptación a una nueva colonización: otras manifestaciones del cristianismo que trascienden el catolicismo que llegó con los españoles. Hoy en Amazonas conviven prácticas evangélicas, pentecostales y adventistas.  <br />
Triple border. <br />
It is market day. From Peru, a family arrives at the Port of Leticia to sell their banana harvest. As Colombians, they belong to the Tikuna ethnic group. For them the border is imaginary; they share the same culture and even the adaptations of the new colonization: other manifestations of Christianity that transcend Catholicism that arrived with the Spaniards. Today, in the Amazon, evangelical, Pentecostal and Adventist practices coexist.
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  • Victoria Kubirinketu, an Ashaninka woman, walks back to her village after collecting bananas and a banana flower (in her hands). <br />
With encroachment from settlers and speculators, and after a devastating war against Shining Path rebels a decade ago, the indigenous Ashaninkas’ hold is precarious. And they are now facing a new peril, the proposed 2,200-megawatt Pakitzapango hydroelectric dam, which would flood much of the Ene River valley. The project is part of a proposal for as many as five dams that under a 2010 energy agreement would generate more than 6,500 megawatts, primarily for export to neighboring Brazil. The dams would displace thousands of people in the process. April 2012. Photo/Tomas Munita
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  • Members of a village go to collect bananas and sweet potatos to a farm in the forests. All the food they bring to the village is later shared among every villager. Tsiquireni, Ene River, Peru. April 2012. Photo/Tomas Munita
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  • Colombia, Leticia, 2010. Vida nueva. <br />
Plaza de mercado en Leticia. Hasta aquí llegan las más diversas y exóticas cosechas de la selva amazónica: arazá, yuca, plátano, tomate, ajíes de distintas variedades, cilantro, cebolla. La tierra, el agua y la mujer indígena son muestra de la enorme fertilidad característica de la región. Esta adolescente trabaja junto a su bebé, aún en brazos, en la plaza que sirve para distribuir desde alimentos hasta teléfonos celulares, artículos de hogar, maquinaria, ropa.<br />
New life. <br />
Leticia Market square. Here the diverse and exotic harvests arrive from the Amazonian forest: arazá, yucca, banana, tomato, peppers of different varieties, coriander, and onion. The land, water and the indigenous woman are sample of the enormous fertility which characterizes the region. This teenager works together with her baby, still in arms, in the square that trades in a range of goods; foods to cellular telephones, household articles, machinery, and clothes.
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