This subcategory gathers indigenous peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean documented by a distinct language and cultural tradition predating European colonization and continuing today, including the Aymara and Quechua of the Andes, the Mapuche of southern South America, and the Maya peoples of Mesoamerica, who are documented as a family of related but distinct communities rather than one uniform people. It does not cover the states of the region, which Political and Geography carry.
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Established Era Primary Discipline All Latin American and Caribbean Indigenous Peoples
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1. Wikipedia: Human Relations Area Files
WikipediaHuman Relations Area Files, lead section, founding sentence
A financially autonomous research agency based at Yale University since 1949, its mission is to promote understanding of cultural diversity and commonality in the past and present.
Human Relations Area Files, lead section, anthropologist sentence
Documents in both eHRAF databases are subject-indexed at the paragraph level by HRAF anthropologists.
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