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Campa Indians

"Campa" is an alternate name for the Ashaninka tribe. Although "Campa" is the term most commonly used by outsiders, many Ashaninka people do not prefer it, considering it derogatory. (It is widely believed to have come from the Inca word t'ampa, meaning "unruly" or "bramble," although it might also have been a corruption of an Ashaninka band name, Tambo.)

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Here are links to our webpages about the Campa tribe and language:

Campa language
Ashaninka
Ashaninka pronunciation
Arawakan languages
South American tribes
Amazon people

Here are links to more Internet resources about the Campa Indians:
Campa Culture
Campa Medical Practices
Ethnologue: Campa Languages
Wikipedia: Campa People

And here are a few good books about the Campas:
Salt of the Mountain: Campa Ashaninka History and Resistance in the Peruvian Jungle
The Phonology and Morphology of Axininca Campa
Ashaninka Stories of Change
Upper Perené Arawak Narratives of History, Landscape, and Ritual

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