Juris

The Juris (also Juri, Yuri)^[1] were a tribe of South American Indigenous people, formerly occupying the country between the rivers Içá (lower Putumayo) and Yapura, north-western Brazil. In ancient days they were the most powerful tribe of the district, but in 1820 their numbers did not exceed 2000. Owing to inter-marrying, the Juris are believed to have been extinct for half a century. They were closely related to the Passes, and were like them a fair-skinned, finely built people with quite European features.

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^ Métraux, Alfred (1946). Steward, Julian Haynes (ed.). Tribes of the middle and upper Amazon River. In Handbook of South American Indians. Volume 3. The Tropical Forest Tribes. Internet Archive. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print Off. p. 708.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Juris". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 571.

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[1] Métraux, Alfred (1946). Steward, Julian Haynes (ed.). Tribes of the middle and upper Amazon River. In Handbook of South American Indians. Volume 3. The Tropical Forest Tribes. Internet Archive. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print Off. p. 708.

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