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Indigenous dancers in Brazilian city

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Tikuna indigenous dance in the street of their neighborhood in Manaus, Brazil. Tikuna families started moving to the city in the 1980s from their forest villages in the Alto Solimoes region of the Amazon. Beginning in the 1990s they centered their life in the Cidade de Deus neighborhood. With assistance from the Catholic Church's Indigenous Mission Council, known as CIMI, they formed the Wotchimaucu Community, today a center for Tikuna culture and for Tikuna newcomers migrating to the city. Dancing is one part of a community struggle to keep indigenous culture alive in the urban setting.

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Paul Jeffrey
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Amazon, Brazil
Tikuna indigenous dance in the street of their neighborhood in Manaus, Brazil. Tikuna families started moving to the city in the 1980s from their forest villages in the Alto Solimoes region of the Amazon. Beginning in the 1990s they centered their life in the Cidade de Deus neighborhood. With assistance from the Catholic Church's Indigenous Mission Council, known as CIMI, they formed the Wotchimaucu Community, today a center for Tikuna culture and for Tikuna newcomers migrating to the city. Dancing is one part of a community struggle to keep indigenous culture alive in the urban setting.