• News of this people

• Lideranças denunciam que índios passam fome no Norte de MT
  
  20/03/2013
• DSEI Xingu forma novos Agentes de Saúde Indígena
  
  05/11/2012
• Rollemberg cobra do governo mais diálogo com os índios
  
  20/08/2012

• Inhabited lands

• Xingu

Aweti

Introduction

The Aweti, speakers of a Tupian language, live in the centre of the Upper Xingu region, between the Aruak groups to the west and south and the Carib groups to the east. Traditionally they played an important role among the Upper Xingu peoples as intermediaries in the circulation of news and wealth items and as hosts for travellers, but the catastrophic population loss experienced in the first decades of the 20th century, which almost led to their disappearance as a group, meant that their presence in the area became less visible. Undoubtedly, the Aweti comprise the least known of the Upper Xingu peoples and the same applies to their language. Following their demographic recovery, however, the Aweti are resuming much of their traditional cultural life and have looked to mark their presence in contemporary Upper Xingu society.

(**) Some data and information for this entry were collected in 2003