News of this people
- Prefeitura de Maricá oferece nova área no Caxito e índios rejeitam proposta
24/05/2013 - Da aldeia ao túnel do Metrô
16/05/2013 - Animais invadem aldeia e preocupam índios
13/05/2013
Inhabited lands
- Cacique Doble
- Ibirama-La Klãnõ
- Morro dos Cavalos
- Salto Grande do Jacuí
- Varzinha
- Guarani de Águas Brancas
- Corveta I e II
- Rio do Meio
- Garuva
- Rio Bonito
- Reta
- Caieiras Velhas II
- Taim
- Mangueirinha
- Itaóca
- Ka´aguy Guaxy/Palmital
- Capivari
- Guarani de Araponga
- Guarani do Aguapeú
- Guarani Barra do Ouro
- Guarani do Bracuí
- Guarita
- Ilha da Cotinga
- Nova Jacundá
- Pacheca
- Parati-Mirim
- Rio Areia
- Rio Branco (do Itanhaém)
- Rio das Cobras
- Xambioá
- Xapecó
- Massiambu/Palhoça
- Toldo Chimbangue II
- Cachoeira dos Inácios
- Mbiguaçu
- Nonoai
- Ka´aguy Poty
- Guarani do Rio Pequeno
- Arandu Mirim (Saco do Mamanguá)
- Sambaqui
- Cerco Grande
- Karuguá (Araçá´i)
- Ribeirão Silveira
- Arroio do Conde
- Passo Grande
- Petim/Arasaty
- Ponta da Formiga
- Água Grande
- Coxilha da Cruz
- Inhacapetum
- Pindoty
- Pacurity (Ilha do Cardoso)
- Tapy'i (Rio Branquinho)
- Tekoa Uruity
- Tekoa Jaikoaty
- Tekoa Pindoty
- Tekoa Guaviraty (Subaúma)
- Tekoa Itapuã (Icapara I)
- Tekoa Jejyty (Toca do Bugio)
- Tekoa Itaoka (Icapara II)
- Tupiniquim
- Tekoa Amba Porá
- Tekoa Peguaoty
- Irapuã
- Cambirela
- Morro Alto
- Tarumã
- Piraí
- Tenondé Porã
- Barragem
- Guarani do Krukutu
- Cantagalo
- Mato Preto
- Boa Vista do Sertão do Pró-Mirim
- Jaraguá
Guarani Mbya
- Other names
M'byá - Where they are
Argentina
ES, PA, PR, RJ, RS, SC, SP, TO
Paraguai - How many
5.500 (CTI/G. Grünberg, 2008)
7.000 (Funasa, Funai, 2008)
14.887 (II Censo Nacional Indígena, 2002) - Linguistic family
Tupi-Guarani
Introduction
We are a single family in origin - our bodies and way of being are the same, our language and our speech are the same (...) Our ancestors went to Brazil and our kin who came from Brazil are those who were left and they are true Guarani (Part of a speech of the political leader of the village of Pastoreo, Itapua, Paraguai, in 1997).
The Mbya identify their “equals”, in the past, through the remembrance of the common use of the same type of tambeao (a cotton garment that the ancestors wove), eating habits and linguistic expressions. They collectively recognize themselves as Ñandeva ekuéry (“all those who are us”). Despite the various types of pressures and interference that the Guarani have suffered over the centuries and the great dispersion of their villages, the Mbya fully recognize themselves as a differentiated group. Thus, despite the occurrence of marriages among the Guarani subgroups, the Mbya maintain a well defined religious and linguistic unity, which allows them to recognize their equals even though they live in villages separated by great geographical distances and surrounded by distinct national societies. With regard to the other Guarani subgroups who live in Brazil .
