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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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The word ultimately comes from the native ethnonym "Shuar", but seems to have spread through Latin America with a pejorative meaning of "savage" or "uncivilised".
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In Ecuador, the Shuar and other indigenous groups have donned war-paint and blocked highways over water rights and oil and mining plans.
Peru's tribal groups chide president for vetoing rainforest law Latin America correspondent 2010
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In Ecuador, too, Indigenous people were killed for resisting violations of their land when the Shuar protested mining and water laws that did not respect their rights.
Violence and Women in the Amazon Basin « Gender Across Borders 2010
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When residents of a Shuar village in Ecaudor listened to the recordings, they correctly distinguished between infant-directed and adult-directed speech in 73 percent of the recordings.
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I could be a shrunken head made by the Shuar tribe of the Amazon.
The mystery of the furry skull in the barn. Ann Althouse 2009
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After killing a foe, the Shuar tribe in a remote area of Ecuador took heads, skinned them, boiled the skin, sewed the skin back up, closed the mouth with wooden pegs, heated the head with rocks and sand, and then smoked it until it was cured.
Believe It or Not, a Shortage of Oddities Bedevils Ripley's 2009
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The new combined company has plans to plunder Ecuadorian rainforests and the traditional homeland of the Shuar and Achuar peoples of the Ecuadorian Amazon to feed America's oil addiction.
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In Ecuador, the Shuar tribe, long embroiled in a struggle with American oil companies, was recently granted title to its communal lands, as mapped by GPS.
With the Help of GPS, Amazonian Tribes Reclaim the Rain Forest Andy Isaacson 2007
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Saying he had to strike a balance between “the spiritual and the temporal,” an Ontario judge sentenced a Shuar traditional healer to 12 months of house arrest for the death of a Wikwemikong elder in November 2001.
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Yesterday they were surrounded by supporters selling CDs of Shuar music for $20 each to help support them — they are not allowed to work in Canada.
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