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Members of the Jodoimenna community rely on horticulture (slash and burn), fishing and hunting for sustenance. Their 'wild'life is their diet, their medicine cabinet, their content piece for intellectual and spiritual life - what we call the environment they call home. Here, the hunting of one Great Egret will provide one family with enough protein for 2 to 3 days. Contrary to common belief, indigenous cultures don’t eat less than enough, they eat just enough. Problem is, our vision of a healthy diet (of what, basically, constitutes ‘sufficient’ food) is largely biased by our own over-consumption. Nevertheless, the Yekuana hope to shift to sustainable animal husbandry in order to better preserve their 'game' well into the future. Just playing it safe.
Image (c) Val Druguet.
