Relationships With Other Indigenous Groups
The Hupd'äh maintain complex and permanent historical relationships with the Tukano, Desana, Tuyuka, and Tariano Indians of the Uaupés, Tiquié, and Papuri rivers. This peculiar inter-ethnic relationship is part of the traditions of the peoples of this region, and its preservation would likely guarantee the cultural equilibrium of the peoples of the region. The relationship has already been described as symbiotic, asymmetric and hierarchical, or as an employer/employee relationship. The Tukanos justify their behavior through myths that tell of the origins of the tribes of the region. The Hupda, according to Tukano versions of the myths, were the last to come into world. Consequently they are considered inferior, lowest on the hierarchy of inter-tribal relations in the Uaupés river basin and, because of this, must perform work deemed inferior, which only the lowest ranking clans in the hierarchy perform.
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