Apolista

Apolista

A Native South American nation of western Bolivia. Sedentary farmers, hunters, gatherers and fishers, they spoke an Arawakan language now gravely endangered, if not extinct. From 1713, they were gathered at a variety of missions with other nations, and rapidly lost their traditional culture to the point that a realistic census count is no longer possible.

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This was taken from ‘Peoples, Nations and Cultures’ by Professor John Mackenzie


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