| Description | Gregoria was the youngest daughter of the Yawarana chief known as Yatun mukuru ‘the son of the sun’. His father had taken her mother from an E'ñapa group. Her first husband was the Yawarana chief known as Pedrito. She gave birth to 8 children. Her older brother Santos, was husband to Irma. When the anthropologists Johannes Wilbert visited the Yawaranas in March 1958, he reported Gregoria was 18 years old. The 2015 speaker census compiled by the Yawarana organization reported she was then 77 years old. The community identifies her as being a speaker of the Yawarana variant of the Yawarana language. She did not receive formal education in Spanish (nor Yawarana) and did not live as a child outside of the Yawarana community. |
