• News of this people

• Ex-madeireiro, indigenista monitora único sobrevivente de povo massacrado em RO
  
  19/12/2010
• Índios de tribo isolada são visitados pela Funai no Amazonas
  
  11/12/2010
• Brasil tem mais de 70 grupos indígenas isolados, aponta Funai
  
  28/10/2010

• Inhabited lands

• Rio Omerê

Akuntsu

Introduction

The last six survivors of the people known to outsiders as the ‘Akuntsu’ live in two small malocas set close to one another in the forests of the Omerê river, an affluent of the left bank of the Corumbiara in the southeast of Rondônia state. The area comprises a small reserve of forest previously belonging to a private farm interdicted by Funai at the end of the 1980s. The region comprises terra firme equatorial forest with quite a few small hills and a few springs. Like the other forest reserves of Rondônia, the territory is seriously under threat from crop farming and cattle ranching.