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Sikuani and Orinoco Indigenous Foodways

Indigenous

The SIKUANI (Guahibo), historically mobile hunter-gatherers and horticulturalists of the Llanos and the Orinoco, now largely in resguardos in Vichada, Meta and Arauca and also in Venezuela; with the PIAPOCO, CURRIPACO, PUINAVE and others along the Orinoco and Guaviare. Bitter yuca processed into CASABE and MAÑOCO/fariña; river fish; hunted game; palm fruits — moriche above all, whose fruit, heart and grubs are all food; wild honey. ⚠ THEIR HISTORY INCLUDES THE GUAHIBIADA, the hunting of Sikuani people by settlers into the twentieth century, prosecuted in the Planas case; that is part of this food-system record because it is why their territory is what it is.

Atlas — where and when

Where in the world

Communities and languages

  • Sikuani community documented
  • Piapoco community documented
  • Curripaco community documented
  • Puinave community documented

Languages: Sikuani, Piapoco, Curripaco, Puinave

What is recorded

  • The Planas case brings prosecutions for the hunting of Sikuani people by settlers in the Llanos — the guahibiada. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • related to Venezuelan Cuisine documented

    The Sikuani, Piapoco and Curripaco live on both banks of the Orinoco.

Recipes

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