Hodï

{{short description|Indigenous people who live in the Amazonas basin}}

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| group = Hodï

| image = Flautistas jotï en el río Kayamá.png

| caption = Jotï flute players on the banks of Kayamá river, Bolívar State (2007)

| total = 982 (2011)

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| rels = Shamanism

| langs = Hodï language

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The Hodï or Jotï (from the Hodï word for "people") are a small group of indigenous people who live in the Amazon rainforest in Venezuela. The last census held in Venezuela, in 2011, registered 982 individuals identifying as Hodï; a 2016 estimate accounted a population of around 1200.{{cite journal|title=Bae-ja: ¿Ser joven? entre los Jotï de la Guayana Venezolana|journal=Cultura y Representaciones Sociales|issue=10|volume=20|publisher=National Autonomous University of Mexico|last1=Zent|first1=Egleé L.|last2=Zent|first2=Stanford|last3=Quatra|first3=Miguel Marcello|date=March 2016|language=es|issn=2007-8110|pages=143–186}} They speak the Hodï language and are closely related to the Piaroa people, although linguistic connections between the two people groups have not reached consensus among scholars.{{cite journal |last=Labrada |first=Jorge Emilio Rosés |year=2019 |title=Jodï-Sáliban: A Linguistic Family of the Northwest Amazon |journal=International Journal of American Linguistics |volume=85 |issue=3 |pages=275–311 |doi=10.1086/703238|s2cid=198801032 }} They are also known by a number of exonyms as the Hoti, Chicano, Shikana, Yuana, Waruwarú, or Rua.Zent, S. and Zent, E. L. (2007), p. 79.

The Hodï were one of the last indigenous peoples to make contact with non-indigenous settlers in Venezuela. Their presence in the Sierra de Maigualida area, between the Amazonas and Bolívar states, was first attested by European sources in 1913 through accounts from Ye'kuana people, who referred to the Hodï as Waruwadu.Zent, S. and Zent, E. L. (2007), p. 81.{{cite AV media| people=José Manuel Novoa|date=2008|title=Los hoti de Venezuela. Los últimos hombres libres|trans-title=The Hoti of Venezuela. The last free men|type=video|language=es|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWFC3Gq24o4&|access-date=12 July 2022}}

The Hodï are primarily hunter-gatherers who follow seasonal nomadic patterns. The two largest settlements populated by Hodï have been established by Christian missionaries: San José de Kayamá (established by Catholic missionaries) and Caño Iguana (established by Evangelical missionaries). Some of the main crops in Hodï agriculture are plantain, maize, cassava, yam and sweet potato, among others. Overall, the Hodï grow over 67 plant species, of which 36 are used for food, 20 for ritualistic or medicinal purposes, and 11 for constructing artifacts.{{cite journal|title=Jodï horticultural belief, knowledge and practice: incipient or integral cultivation?|journal=Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas|volume=7|number=2|last1=Zent|first1=Stanford|last2=Zent|first2=Egleé L.|date=August 2012|pages=293–338 |doi=10.1590/S1981-81222012000200003|doi-access=free}}