article_snippet.sent: There are about 26,000 Yanomami living in Brazil and 15,000 in Venezuela, mostly in federally protected reserves near rivers and in remote mountains.
article_snippet.sent: Yanomami are an indigenous ethnic group in the Amazonian region of South America.
article_snippet.sent: There are about 26,000 Yanomami living in Brazil and 15,000 in Venezuela, mostly in federally protected reserves near rivers and in remote mountainsBrazil .
article_snippet.sent: Yanomami are hunter-gatherers.
article_snippet.sent: Yanomami gather wild bananas, seasonal fruits, palm hearts and cassava.
article_snippet.sent: Yanomami hunt birds, small mammals, crabs, frogs, small fish and the occasional peccary, monkey or tapir.
article_snippet.sent: Many Yanomami now regularly interact with Western civilization through trade, but some villages have never had contact with non-Yanomami people.