13 Facts About Shuar people

Shuar people refer to Spanish-Speakers as apach, and to non-Spanish and non-Shuar people speakers as inkis.

The Shuar people are popularly depicted in a wide variety of travelogue and adventure literature because of Western fascination with their former practice of shrinking human heads .

Center of Shuar people life was a relatively autonomous household consisting of a husband, his wives, unmarried sons, and daughters.

In 1527, the Shuar people defeated an incursion by the Inca armies of Huayna Capac.

When Shuar people first made contact with Spaniards in the 16th century, they entered into peaceful trade relations.

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In 1964 representatives of Shuar people centros formed a political Federation to represent their interests to the Ecuadorian state, non-governmental organizations, and transnational corporations.

Shuar people men believed that control of the muisak would enable them to control their wives' and daughters' labor.

Shuar people believed that they could easily lose their arutam wakani, and thus repeated this ritual several times.

Shuar people believed that if a person in possession of an arutam wakani died a peaceful death, they would give birth to a new wakani; if someone in possession of an arutam wakani were killed, they would give birth to a muisak.

Shuar people generally do not believe in natural death, although they recognize that certain epidemics such as measles and scarlet fever are diseases introduced through contact with Europeans or Euro-Americans.

Many Shuar people believe that illness is caused when someone hires a shaman to shoot tsentsak into the body of an enemy.

Shuar people entered into peaceful trade relations, exchanged land for manufactured goods, and began sending their children to mission boarding schools to learn Spanish.

The name Iwia means "Jungle Demon", it comes from the Shuar mythology: the Iwia is a feared demon that devours people.