News of this people
- Sociedade civil começa a discutir apoio ao povo Cinta Larga
21/05/2013 - 'É meu presente', diz mãe adotiva de menino indígena com Down em MT
12/05/2013 - Em Rondônia, sociedade civil se mobiliza em favor do povo Cinta Larga
25/04/2013
Inhabited lands
- Aripuanã
- Aripuanã
- Roosevelt
- Serra Morena
Foto: Jesco Von Puttkamer, 1972.
Cinta larga
- Other names
- Where they are
MT, RO - How many
1.757 (Siasi/Sesai, 2012) - Linguistic family
Mondé
Introduction
The name “Broad Belt" [Cinta Larga] or "Broad Big Belt” [ Cinturão Largo] had been used to refer to several groups who inhabit the region near the border between Rondônia and Mato Grosso, since all of these groups used some kind of belt and built large and long houses.
The main activity of this Tupi group is hunting, and festivals, when the game is consumed after a complex ritual, which symbolically equates hunting and warfare, thus revealing significant aspects of Cinta Larga society and guaranteeing the equilibrium of the group. This equilibrium in the last few years has been deeply upset by the presence of goldpanners on their lands.
