News of this people
- Justiça manda retirar índios de Belo Monte
10/05/2013 - Belo Monte: governo pressiona indígenas com força policial; trabalhadores da usina prestam solidariedade
03/05/2013 - Manifestantes ocupam canteiro de Belo Monte e pedem regulamentação de convenção da OIT
02/05/2013
Inhabited lands
- Kapotnhinore
- Badjônkôre
- Capoto/Jarina
- Kararaô
- Kayapó
- Trincheira/Bacajá
- Xikrin do Cateté
- Baú
- Las Casas
Foto: Gustaaf Verswijver, 1991
Kayapó
- Other names
Kaiapó, Caiapó, Gorotire, Mekrãgnoti, Kuben-Kran-Krên, Kôkraimôrô, Metyktire, Xikrin, Kararaô - Where they are
MT, PA - How many
8.638 (Funasa, 2010) - Linguistic family
Jê
Introduction
The Kayapó live in villages dispersed along the upper course of the Iriri, Bacajá and Fresco rivers, as well as affluents of the voluminous Xingu river, outlining a territory almost as large as Austria in Central Brazil and almost entirely covered in equatorial rainforest, with the exception of the eastern section, filled by some areas of scrubland. Their cosmology, ritual life and social organization are extremely rich and complex, while their relations with non-Indian society and environmentalists from the world over are marked by their intensity and ambivalence.
