• News of this people

• O aço que engole a floresta
  
  14/05/2012
• Índios querem saber destino do antigo Museu do Índio, localizado ao lado do Maracanã
  
  13/05/2012
• MPF/MA solicita apuração de homicídio de liderança indígena Guajajara
  
  02/05/2012

• Inhabited lands

• Araribóia
• Cana Brava
• Geralda/Toco Preto
• Governador
• Lagoa Comprida
• Morro Branco
• Rio Pindaré
• Rodeador
• Urucu-Juruá
• Caru
• Vila Real
• Bacurizinho
• Bacurizinho área ampliada

Guajajara

Introduction

The Guajajara are one of Brazil's most numerous indigenous peoples. They live in 11 Indigenous Lands at the eastern margin of the Amazon region, all of them located in Maranhão State. Their history of more than 380 years of contacts is marked by both approaches to whites and total refusals, submissions, revolts, and great tragedies. The 1901 revolt against Capuchin missionaries provoked the last "war against the Indians" in Brazilian history.