santiago de cali and the first habitants
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SANTIAGO DE CALI AND THE FIRST INHABITANTS
Once upon a time, several centuries ago, even before
the spanish arrived to America, there were some communities that lived in
the territory where Santiago de Cali is located
in these days (One of you know how
were these people called?)
COMMUNITIES THAT LIVED IN THE PLACE WHERE SANTIAGO DE CALI IS
LOCATED IN THESE DAYS
Well, in this place we have some native’s groups: Jamundies, Timbas. the Colocos in the middle, and
time after, the Paeces, Pijaos and
Lilies.
This people had a life a little bit different from ours. They didn`t have tv, computers, internet, cell phones or even phones, didn`t have cars or planes. (So What do you think they did to have fun? And what did they do to talk With people who lived far away? How did they do to travel to distant places?
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HOW THEY HAD FUN
They had different ways to have fun, instead of going to the movies,
watching tv or connecting to internet, they used to go fishing,
or collecting seeds and threads to make necklaces. Although these
people lived in the mountains and away from a river to fish, they did it in some lakes and the BIG RIVER
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HOW THEY TALKED WITH PEOPLE FAR AWAY
To communicate with other villages they sent
a guy with the information, and he had
to go by walking.
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HOW THEY TRAVELED TO DISTANT PLACES
They never travel as far as today, just short
distances and they did it by walking.
Remember the horses and cows were brought
by the Spanish.
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Also they have a different way to communicate, a different language, and
have a different diet, they ate different things
(Do you know who were the CALIMAS?
One of you have an idea of what they ate?)
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THE CALIMASThe native´s groups that lived in these
places belong to a biggest family: the CALIMAS. We have a lake that
receives that name, and some of us could think that it was because they lived around that lake or at least nearby. But the CALIMAS lived all around the VALLE DEL CAUCA, there were many small
communities that belong to that family. And even every community has its own boss, rules, people and
territory, they have some characteristics in common.
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WHAT THEY ATE
These communities ate vegetables and different
things they grew. But they also ate meat, but it wasn´t beef or pork,
they ate some little animals called the
GUATÍN, the GURRE and the GÜAGÜA.
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Also their life was different from ours because of the
way they built towns. (Some of you know what did this
people do to build them? What did they do when they got sick?
What did they wear?) NEXT
HOW THEY BUILT THEIR TOWNS
Those communities were composed by small villages with
15 to 20 persons. They were mainly located in the sides of
the mountain and in the river´s courses. The villages were built
with houses from 10 to 10, some places more and some
other less. They were big, rounded, covered with straw, and there were many small rivers with potable water. BACK
WHAT THEY DID WHEN THEY GOT SICK
And when they got sick, they never went to a
see a doctor, they went to the Chaman or
Mama, (the magician of the tribe) they took a
shower with plants and in some times they
prepared drinks.BACK
WHAT THEY WORE
Well, Men and women put in their noses some gold´s nails that they called CARICURIS.
Some of them had the size of a finger. Sometimes they used gold´s necklaces. Men used a Little cotton blanket to cover
the front and other to the back; Women used cotton blankets to
cover below the hips.BACK
THERE IS A LAST AND SHORT STORY
The most numerous communities of the west part of the valley had a main chief named PETE or
PETECUY. He lived in a high land and had a house with more than 400 skin´s villagers as walls papers. There were other houses with that kind of trophies
but in a lower number; they were neighbor enemies and had a biggest merit the one who had killed more people. The women participated in this fights and if they were defeated, their meat would
be the dinner.