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Kampa

"Kampa" is an alternate name for the Ashaninka tribe. Many Ashaninka people do not prefer this term, considering it derogatory. (It is widely believed to have come from the Inca word t'ampa, meaning "unruly," 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 Kampa tribe and language:

Kampa language
Ashaninkas
Ashaninka pronunciation
Arawakan
South American tribes
Amazonian people

Here are links to more Internet resources about the Kampa Indians:
Kampa-Ashaninka Indians
Kampa or Ashaninka Indians
Wikipedia: Kampa People

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

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