Rainforests don’t just have animals and plants. There are also native people. Indigenous or native people have lived in the rainforest for thousands of years. A lot of the original native people like the Caribs (after the Caribbean Sea is named) have completely disappeared. Other native people communities are just scattered over the world. “However thousands of distinct ethnic groups with their own distinctive language and culture remain today in tropical rainforests of the world.”

Even though some native people live a lot like we do, other native people live like their ancestors before them did. Native people have different things to do than we do. They make their own food, medicine, and clothing from the sources around them.

The native rainforest children don’t go to school like we do instead they learn from their family and people around them. They are being taught how to how to survive in the rainforest, how to hunt for fish, and which plants are useful for medicine or food. Some of the native kids know more about the rainforest than scientists that have studied about the rainforests for many years.

To learn more about the native people of the rainforest visit the following sites:
http://www.ran.org/kids_action/s07_indigenous.html
http://www.rainforest-alliance.org/kids&teachers/kids/activities/remarkable-rainforest/people.html http://www.christiananswers.net/kids/rainforest/home.html
http://mbgnet.mobot.org/sets/rforest/index.htm