News of this people
- Terra Indígena Kayabi é homologada pela presidenta Dilma
26/04/2013 - Dilma homologa demarcação de terra indígena em Mato Grosso
25/04/2013 - Com orçamento de R$ 609 milhões, Funai tem apenas 17 pessoas no licenciamento
17/04/2013
Inhabited lands
- Xingu
- Rio Arraias
- Apiaká-Kayabi
- Batelão
- Kayabi
Foto: André Ricardo, 2007
Kaiabi
- Other names
Kawaiwete, Kayabi, Caiabi, Kaiaby, Kajabi, Cajabi - Where they are
MT - How many
2.202 (Siasi/Sesai, 2012) - Linguistic family
Tupi-Guarani
Introduction
The Kaiabi have vigorously resisted the invasion of their lands by rubber companies since the end of the 19th Century. After the 1950s, the region of the Arinos, Peixes and Teles Pires rivers was divided up into glebes that became ranches and the Kaiabi were divided into three groups. Most moved to the Indigenous Park of the Xingu, where they are outstanding for their practice of a strong and diversified agriculture, their art which is characterized by complex graphic designs inspired by their mythology, and by their active participation in the indigenous movement organized in defense of the interests of the ethnic groups of the Park.
