| Description | Irma is the youngest daughter of Lucía, the oldest Yawarana woman whom all the anthropologists who ever worked with the Yawarana interviewed at some point. She tells she was left as a child under the care of her uncle Agustín, a renown Yawarana shaman. Her husband was Santos (Gregoria's older brother), with whom she lived until his death in 2016. She gave birth to 15 children. When the anthropologists Johannes Wilbert visited the Yawaranas in March 1958, he reported Irma was 22 years old. The 2015 speaker census compiled by the Yawarana organization reported she was then 76 years old. The community identifies her as being a speaker of the Wërechikana/Orechicano 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. |
