Wapishana

I was badly injured, lying underneath him, when the cowboys (all the cowboys were Indians) came running over and pulled me out from underneath Kang and one of them said in Wapishana "Well, the nearest doctor is 26 days on foot from here."

Talking with Remote Area Medical Founder, Stan Brock 2009

I was given a horse to ride - Kang which is a Wapishana word meaning the devil - and Kang had already killed two other cowboys.

Talking with Remote Area Medical Founder, Stan Brock 2009

Dadanawa's vacqueros, or cowboys, are still Wapishana Indians clad in jaguar pelts who ride their horses for days over the empty savanna.

NYT > Home Page 2010

Over plates of deer curry, travelers chatted in Caribbean-accented English or murmured in indigenous languages like Macushi, Arawak and Wapishana.

NYT > Home Page 2010

As he lay on the dusty ground, groaning and desperately in need of medical care, a Wapishana explained that the nearest doctor was twenty-six days away on foot.

Guernica Magazine 2009

The ecosystem is home to settled Macusi and Wapishana communities which are interested stakeholders but also stewards of this ecosystem.

Stabroek News 2009

The ecosystem is home to settled Macusi and Wapishana communities which are interested stakeholders but also stewards of this ecosystem.

Stabroek News 2009

And while I was being pulled out from underneath the horse, one of the Wapishana said, "Well, the nearest doctor is twenty-six days on foot from here."

Democracy Now! 2009

As he lay on the dusty ground, groaning and desperately in need of medical care, a Wapishana explained that the nearest doctor was twenty-six days away on foot.

Guernica Magazine 2009

And while I was being pulled out from underneath the horse, one of the Wapishana said, "Well, the nearest doctor is twenty-six days on foot from here."

Democracy Now! 2009