Group | Wayuu |
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Poptime | approx. 293,777 in Venezuela (2001 Census)approx. 144,003 in Colombia (1997) |
Popplace | La Guajira Peninsula and |
Langs | Wayuu language |
Rels | Traditional |
Related | Arawak group }} |
The territory has equatorial weather seasons: a rainy season from September to December, which they call ''Juyapu''; a dry season, known by them as ''Jemial'', from December to April; a second rainy season called ''Iwa'' from April to May; and a long second dry season from May to September.
The Wayuu had never been subjugated by the Spanish. The two groups were in a more or less permanent state of war. There had been rebellions in 1701 (when they destroyed a Capuchin mission), 1727 (when more than 2,000 Indians attacked the Spanish), 1741, 1757, 1761 and 1768. In 1718 Governor Soto de Herrera called them "barbarians, horse thieves, worthy of death, without God, without law and without a king." Of all the Indians in the territory of Colombia, they were unique in having learned the use of firearms and horses.
In 1769 the Spanish took 22 Wayuus captive, in order to put them to work building the fortifications of Cartagena. The reaction of the Indians was unexpected. On May 2, 1769 at El Rincón, near Río de la Hacha, they set their village afire, burning the church and two Spaniards who had taken refuge in it. They also captured the priest. The Spanish immediately dispatched an expedition from El Rincón to capture the Indians. At the head of this force was José Antonio de Sierra, a mestizo who had also headed the party that had taken the 22 Guajiro captives. The Guajiros recognized him and forced his party to take refuge in the house of the curate, which they then set afire. Sierra and eight of his men were killed.
This success was soon known in other Guajiro areas, and more men joined the revolt. According to Messía, at the peak there were 20,000 Indians under arms. Many had firearms acquired from English and Dutch smugglers, sometimes even from the Spanish. These enabled the rebels to take nearly all the settlements of the region, which they burned. According to the authorities, more than 100 Spaniards were killed and many others taken prisoner. Many cattle were also taken by the rebels. The Spaniards who could took refuge in Río de la Hacha and sent urgent messages to Maracaibo, Valle de Upar, Santa Marta and Cartagena. Cartagena sent 100 troops. The rebels themselves were not unified. Sierra's relatives among the Indians took up arms against the rebels to avenge his death. A battle between the two groups of Indians was fought at La Soledad. That and the arrival of the Spanish reinforcements caused the rebellion to fade away, but not before the Guajiro had regained much territory.
The process of evangelization of the Wayuu people restarted in 1887 with the return of the Capuchin friars under reverend friar José María de Valdeviejas. In 1905, Pope Pius X created the Vicariate of La Guajira and as first Vicar, friar Atanasio Vicente Soler y Royo in an attempt to "civilize" the Wayuu people.
The friars then created the orphanages for Wayuu children beginning with the La Sierrita orphanage built in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains in 1903; followed by the San Antonio orphanage in 1910 located by the Calancala River, Nazareth orphanage in the Serrania de Macuira mountains in 1913 creating a direct influence over the Rancherias of Guarrachal, El Pájaro, Carazúa, Guaraguao, Murumana, Garra patamana and Karraipía. While Nazareth had some control over the rancherías of Taroa, Maguaipa, Guaseipá and Alpanapause. The friars constantly visited the settlements inviting to attend mass. Wayuu children in the orphanage were educated with traditional European customs. Conflicts between the Wayuu people and the Colombian government decreased since then. In 1942 Uribia celebrated for the first time Christmas and New Year's Eve.
In Venezuela, the population is estimated at some 293,777 individuals, according to the 2001 census, with some 60,000 living in the city of Maracaibo. This makes the Wayuu the largest indigenous group in Venezuela, representing 57.5% of the Amerindian population.
Wayuu communities are not uniformly distributed within these territories as their population is concentrated primarily in the outskirts of such settlements as ''Nazareth'' and ''Jala'ala'', on the plains of ''Wopu'muin'' and ''Uribia'', and within the municipalities of Maicao and Manaure, where population densities are some of the highest in the peninsula. This irregular distribution is intimately related to seasonal changes in the weather - during the dry season, a significant percentage of the population crosses the border into Venezuela to work in the city of Maracaibo and its nearby settlements; however, once the rainy season begins, these Wayuu tend to return to their homes on the Colombian side.
Wayuu people refer to themselves simply as "Wayuu" and do not acknowledge the term "Indian," instead preferring the term "people." They use the terms ''Kusina'' or "Indian" to refer to other ethnic indigenous groups, while using the term ''Alijuna'' (essentially meaning "civilized") to refer to outsiders or persons of European ancestry.
Families in the Wayuu culture are divided into clans, some of these are:
! CLAN | ! TERRITORY | ! TRANSLATION |
Aapushana | Eirakajaule Jasauwo´u Kanakantui Matuwolu´u Sipano´u Ushuwo´u watchulepu Wolu´u Watkasainru´u Polumolu´u Shooliyuu-kanejeruu | Sour with something Land of the beach Intercalated Forgotten Land of si´iya Land of pans Away from the pulp round object Inside the heart of the Wolunka house Axe on the ground Hideouts |
Epieyu | Lumoulein Puuroulepu | bushes where sleepiness is felt |
Iguana | Wo'upanalu'u Puuroulepu | Close to the eyes For the birds |
Jayaliyuu | Kalimiru´u Aralietu´u Uraichein Mekijanao | Animal teeth to herd Little "curarire" Eyes without head |
Jusayuu | Polujalii Maraalu'u | Beware of the Axe On top of the land |
Pausayuu | Patsuarui Paluwo'u | Frightened Arrive at the sea |
Sapuana | Tuikii Waaleru | Fire Inside you |
Tijuana | Uchali´i Oulemeru´u | Play A lot |
Uliana | Alainmapu Chawaisu Anuapa´a Pusichipa´a Kaijawou´u Sekuolu´u Uchaispa´a Pulashu´ulia Soulawo´u | All come together One on top of the other When it turns into a boat When it turns into a bat The teeth of out eyes Coming here Going there I have more power than you The one that saws |
Uliyuu | Iisho´u | Of Cardinal |
Uraliyuu | Aalasu Paluuto´u | Passing by My eyes are of sticks |
Ulewana | Iruwo´u | Olive face |
Walepushana | Ishajiwo ´u Alapuolu ´u | Burned eyes laing eyes |
Walapuana | Atuairuku | Nurturing |
To promote Cultural integration and Bilingual education among Wayuus and other Colombians, the ''Kamusuchiwo'u'' Ethno-educative Center or ''Centro Etnoeducativo Kamusuchiwo'u'' came up with the initiative of creating the first illustrated dictionary Wayuunaiki-Spanish, Spanish-Wayuunaiki.
Children are born at home, assisted by the mother-in-law or the nearest female relative and represent for the Wayuu, in some way, the preservation of their species, preferring to feed children first and following strict diets when the surivival of children is not assured.
Puberty is not very important among boys, but girls are exposed to rituals as early as 12 years old or when they start menstruating, requiring them to go through a period of seclusion for anywhere from 2 months up to 2 years. The girl is obliged to get a haircut shaving her head, and to rest in a hammock hung near the house. She is also fed with a special vegetarian diet called ''Jaguapi'', bathes with frequency. Young girls undergo female genital mutilation, a procedure that has caused much strife within, and outside of, the Wayuu community. The girl's mother, grandmother, or other female relatives usually perform the ritual with shamefully unsterilized, inadequate instruments as perceived by modern medical science. She is mutilated and sequestered as a form of "security" for her future husband that she will be faithful and that she will comply with her duty to serve the men of the clan. She is taught such skills as weaving, cooking, and how to "be" with her husband. Her existence is the leader of the society. The women are shamans and politicians, hence why the puberty ritual is based more on women than men. They want there women to be full of wisdom and maturity. She is taught on how to become a woman and female labor: sewing, birth control, and pregnancy. Human rights advocacy perceives the harmful effects of such age-old rituals to be unacceptable by the world at large. It is unclear if these rituals are based on their religion, or if they have conveniently developed as a by-product of an inherent gender bias, and sexist culture in general. The Wayuu also practice polygamy where only the man may have multiple wives. Nearly all marriages are arranged and accompanied by a dowry. Young girls are promised to men of the clan as young as 10–12 years old, right around the time they are becoming of child-bearing age. The perceived intention is to wed her to a man before risking that she become pregnant out of wedlock or arrangement, an act that is of great social shame for the Wayuu, and specifically for the woman's family's honor and credibility.
This culture believes that the life cycle doesn't end with death, but that a relationship with one's bones continues. Burials are very important. The parents of the dead act in a certain way; first the cadaver is buried with personal belongings, and then, after two years, the body is exhumed, incinerated, put into ceramics, and buried once again in the clan's cemetery.
The typical house is a small structure called ''piichi'' or ''miichi'', generally divided into two rooms where they hang hamocs to sleep and to keep personal belongings such as cotton made purses and ceramics to keep water. Living quarters can be either rectangular or semi-circular and the rooftop is made up of dried cactus hearts. Traditionally, the walls are made out of ''yotojoro'' - a wattle and daub of mud, hay and dried canes -, but some of them have shifted towards a more modern construction style, like using cement and other materials.
Close to the main house they erect a common area, similar to a living room named ''luma'' or ''enramada'', but almost in the open. It's made out of six pillars and a flat roof and serves as a common area for everyday duties and where visitors are attended, business activities are handled and where relatives hang their hammocks for the noon power nap.
The Dagger Cactus (''Stenocereus griseus'') which the Wayuu call ''yosú'' is the preferred source of roof and ''yotojoro'' wood. This plant is used for many other purposes - it can be planted to produce living fences around pastureland, and when young the shoots are fed to goats. The fruit (''iguaraya'') are edible and pitahaya-like and are a popular food among the Wayuu. Because the demand for ''yosú'' as food or for wood can be seasonally high, the plant population at times declines to a point where little fruit or cuttings for fences are available. It has thus been proposed to develop techniques by which the Wayuu can cultivate or tend for the cactus as a proper crop.
''Yotojoro'' originally refers to the cane-like inner wood of the ''yosú'' cactus. Given the varying availability of sufficient ''yosú'' wood for construction, other plants are also utilized. These include namely ''trupillo'' or ''turpío'' (''Prosopis juliflora''), ''jattá'' (''Haematoxylum brasiletto''), ''kapchip'' (''Capparis zeylandica'') and ''kayush'' (Peruvian Apple Cactus, ''Cereus repandus'').
The Wayuus created many rustic musical instruments called ''Kashi'', ''Sawawa'' (type of flute), ''ma'asi'', ''totoy'' and the ''taliraai'' (tubular flute), ''wootoroyoi'' (type of clarinet), among others. The ''Majayura'' or ritual of the "young wayuu virgin" in which the female dances towards the male for marriage, while other males perform rhythms with their traditional instruments until the male tumbles onto the ground.
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Name | Donna Karan |
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Nationality | American |
Birth date | October 02, 1948 |
Birth place | Forest Hills, New York |
Education | Hewlett High School The New School (Parsons division) |
Label name | Donna Karan |
Significant design | }} |
Donna Karan (born October 2, 1948) is an American fashion designer and the creator of the ''Donna Karan New York'' and ''DKNY'' clothing labels.
She graduated from Hewlett High School in 1966, and then went to the Parsons School of Design (later known as Parsons the New School for Design after it became a division of The New School), for two years. She left to work for Anne Klein.
Karan became well-known for her 'Essentials' line, initially offering seven easy pieces which could all be mixed and matched, and created a fully integrated wardrobe. Karan always insisted that she would only design clothes, like jersey dresses and opaque Lycra tights, that she would also wear herself. She was once described in the early 1990s by the ''New York Times'' as “[Ed Koch] in a stretchy black dress”.
In 1988, Karan, nicknamed ''The Queen Of Seventh Avenue'' by the time, extended her women's 'Donna Karan New York' line by a less expensive one for younger women, called DKNY. Two years later, she created DKNY Jeans, a denim-inspired collection. DKNY for men was launched in 1992, one year after the 'Signature' line for men had been presented. In its heyday in the 1990s, the Donna Karan portfolio, for men and women, consisted of the top-of-the-line DKNY collection (black label, couture collection, partly hand-made, limited distribution) and its variation, the 'Donna Karan Signature' collection (golden label, designer sportswear, wider distribution), the DKNY lifestyle diffusion line, and the lower-priced DKNY Jeans (and DKNY Active) lines. The portfolio was later complemented by a children's collection, beauty products, accessories and furniture. Sales rose up to $510.1 million in 1995 from $96.6 in 1991. More than half of the sales were attributed to the DKNY lines, couture contributed 15% and about 30% of the sales were generated by men’s clothing, accessories, cosmetics and other products. Almost a third of the sales were made in exports.
In November 2000, the LVMH (Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton) fashion giant completed the acquisition of both Gabrielle Studio, a company that owned the Donna Karan brand and was named after Karan's daughter, and Donna Karan International Inc. for about $400 million and $240 million, respectively. LVMH subsequently re-arranged the Donna Karan portfolio: 'Donna Karan New York' for men was discontinued, as well as the 'Signature' lines for men and women.
In August 2008, Donna Karan relaunched her discontinued fragrance lines from the 1990s. These include DK Fuel for Men, Signature, Chaos, and Black Cashmere. They are available exclusively in the United States at Saks Fifth Avenue, Bergdorf Goodman, Manhattan and at Harrod's, Knightsbridge, London.
Since 2005, Karan has offered online shopping of its DKNY and associated lines at the label's web site.
The company maintains design studios, showrooms and offices at 550 Seventh Avenue (Manhattan) (headquarters) and 240 W. 40th St. in New York City.
On May 17, 2008, protesters, who were eventually arrested, crouched in the yoga ‘rabbit pose’ and covered themselves with fake blood while Karan spoke at the Yoga Journal Boston Conference at the Sheraton Boston Hotel. On September 7, 2008, PETA protesters picketed a Boston fashion show by waving signs reading: "Donna: Dump Fur." On December 4, 2008, PETA members wearing Grim Reaper costumes and "bloody" fur coats protested at Karan's boutique in Boston. On December 22, Donna Karan announced that her fall 2009 lines would be fur-free and stated that she had "no plans" to use fur in the future. A personal appeal from Tim Gunn, the chief creative officer for Liz Claiborne and announcer in a PETA video, is said to have influenced the decision after PETA's two year campaign against her and Giorgio Armani.
However, by the Fall of 2010, Karan's fall collection once again included fur items, including jackets and vests. In response to this, PETA held a demonstration on October 19, 2010 near a Democratic fundraiser in Donna Karan’s penthouse. At the event, which was organized by Karan and first lady Michelle Obama, the PETA protestors held placards that called Karan, "Bunny Butcher." PETA protests against Karan because they allege that the fur industry kills 50 million animals, many of which are skinned alive.
On November 29, 2010, 16 different PETA profiles posted a vertical message on Karan's Facebook page that read "DK BUNNY BUTCHER." Each profile picture represented a letter in the message. "Bunny Butcher" is the nickname given to Karan by the organization for using rabbit fur in her collections.
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name | Daniel Alvarado |
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birth date | January 01, 1951 |
birth place | Maracaibo, Venezuela |
yearsactive | 1973—present |
spouse | Carmen Julia Álvarez (1978-1994)Emma Rabbe (1998-present) }} |
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