Who are the Tsimane people of Bolivia?

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The Tsimané (Chimané) are an indigenous people of lowland Bolivia, living in the municipalities of San Borja, San Ignacio de Moxos, Rurrenabaque, and Santa Ana de Yacuma of Beni Department. The Tsimané are the main residents of the T’simane Council Territory (Spanish: Territorio del Consejo T’simane) and the Pilon Lajas Reserve. They are a hunter-gatherer culture, although the settlements are becoming more stable.[citation needed] Those Tsimané living in the Reserve are affiliated with the multiethnic Consejo Regional Tsimane Moseten (CRTM), which holds the title to the Reserve as a Native Community Land or TCO.

Name

The Tsimané are also known as the Achumano, Chamano, Chimanis, Chimanisa, Chimnisin, Chumano, Nawazi-Moñtji, and Ramano people.

Language

The Tsimané people speak the Tsimané language, which is a Mosetenan language. The other Mosetenan languages are Mosetén of Santa Ana and Mosetén of Covendo (Sakel 2004). It can be described as a small language family, though sometimes it also appears as a language isolate. The reason for this is that some of the variants are mutually intelligible (Sakel 2004).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsimane%27

The Tsimane' are an Amazonian forager-horticulturalist group inhabiting a vast area of lowland forests, and savannas east of the Andes in the Beni department of Bolivia. Tsimane make a living through swidden agriculture, hunting, fishing, gathering, and occasional wage labor. Approximately 9000 Tsimane' live in about 80 small villages, typically consisting of extended family clusters (50-150 people) that vary considerably in river access, surrounding game densities and access to market goods. There also exists great variation in the extent of integration into the larger Bolivian society and economy among the Tsimane, continuously increasing with proximity to towns. While no villages have running water or electricity, up to 30 villages now house schools where students learn to read and write in both Tsimane and Spanish The Tsimane are tentatively making small steps towards acculturation but appear hesitant due to a desire to maintain a social identity and an omnipresent mistrust of Bolivian nationals.
http://www.unm.edu/~tsimane/tsimaneinfo.html

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