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- proper noun An
indigenous ethnic group inBrazil andGuyana . - proper noun Their language, which has between 20000 and 30000 speakers, and is in the Cariban family.
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Examples
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The lodge is situated in a clearing, with scattered thatch huts connected by wooden walkways, a project meant to conserve the rain forest habitat and generate income for the Macushi: one of Guyana's nine Amerindian tribes.
SFGate: Top News Stories travel@sfchronicle.com (Jeff Greenwald 2011
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Our host was a Macushi named Guy Fredericks, who had returned to Guyana after six years trying to make it in Brazil.
SFGate: Top News Stories travel@sfchronicle.com (Jeff Greenwald 2011
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"Now Guyana's continental destiny hinges on the road's asphalting," said Mr. Edwards in the foothills of the Pakaraima Mountains, where he settled, married a Macushi woman, had three sons and opened a roadside hotel.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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Over plates of deer curry, travelers chatted in Caribbean-accented English or murmured in indigenous languages like Macushi, Arawak and Wapishana.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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(Built in 2004 as part of a sustainable tourism initiative between Guyana and the United States, the lodges are now managed and operated by the local Macushi tribe.)
NYT > Home Page 2010
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(Built in 2004 as part of a sustainable tourism initiative between Guyana and the United States, the lodges are now managed and operated by the local Macushi tribe.)
NYT > Travel 2010
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In Surama, where we stayed, a tiny Macushi village of about 300 inhabitants set in a five-square-mile patch of open savannah in the northern Rupununi, two four-bed eco-lodges have drawn a steady stream of visitors.
NYT > Travel 2010
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In Surama, where we stayed, a tiny Macushi village of about 300 inhabitants set in a five-square-mile patch of open savannah in the northern Rupununi, two four-bed eco-lodges have drawn a steady stream of visitors.
NYT > Travel By TARA MULHOLLAND 2010
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In Surama, where we stayed, a tiny Macushi village of about 300 inhabitants set in a five-square-mile patch of open savannah in the northern Rupununi, two four-bed eco-lodges have drawn a steady stream of visitors.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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