News of this people
- MPF/MT recorre à justiça para exigir estudo dos impactos da usina Teles Pires aos povos indígenas
24/04/2012 - MPF/MT faz exposição de fotos em homenagem ao Dia do Índio
19/04/2012 - PRR1 recorre de decisão que autoriza retomada de obras na hidrelétrica de Teles Pires
17/04/2012
Inhabited lands
- Xingu
- Kayabi
- Rio Arraias
- Apiaká-Kayabi
- Umutina
- Batelão
Foto: André Ricardo, 2007
Kaiabi
- Other names
Kawaiwete, Kayabi, Caiabi, Kaiaby, Kajabi, Cajabi - Where they are
MT, PA - How many
1.855 (Unifesp/Funasa, 2010) - 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 Xingu Indian Park, 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.
