News of this people
- MPF/TO participa da 2ª Assembleia dos Povos Indígenas de Goiás e Tocantins
23/05/2013 - MPF/TO acompanha fiscalização ambiental no Parque Nacional do Araguaia
17/05/2013 - Ministro da Justiça assina portaria declaratória de três terras indígenas
22/04/2013
Karajá
- Other names
Caraiauna - Where they are
GO, MT, PA, TO - How many
3.198 (Funasa, 2010) - Linguistic family
Karajá
Subsistence activities
The community's staple food sources are the fish populations found in the Araguaia river and the lakes. A few mammals are prized as game, while the Karajá display a special predilection for capturing macaw parrots, jabiru storks and spoonbills to make feather decorations.
Swiddens are cleared in gallery forest using a slash-burn technique. The ethnographic and historical records cite the cultivation of maize, manioc, potato, banana, watermelon, yam, peanuts and beans. Today, easy access to the town's facilities has reduced these products to maize, banana, manioc and watermelon. The Karajá also exploit wild fruits, such as those of the oiti and pequi trees, and collect wild honey. Sometimes they capture livestock raised in the open on the Ilha do Bananal to consume their meat, though this is not much favoured by older people.
