News of this people
- Povo Apyãwa (Tapirapé) realiza o IV Seminário de Jovens Pesquisadores
14/02/2013 - Informe no 3 - Operação de desintrusão da Terra Indígena Marãiwatsédé (MT)
14/12/2012 - Indígena Tapirapé escreve carta em solidariedade ao povo Xavante de Marãiwatsédé
13/12/2012
Inhabited lands
- Urubu Branco
- Araguaia
- Tapirapé/Karajá
Foto: Antônio Carlos Moura, s/d
Tapirapé
- Other names
- Where they are
MT, TO - How many
655 (Funasa, 2010) - Linguistic family
Tupi-Guarani
Introduction
The Tapirapé are a Tupi-Guarani people who inhabit the region of the Urubu Branco mountain range in Mato Grosso. As a result of contact with the advancing development fronts from the mid- 20th century, they suffered an intense loss of population, and during this time they became close to the Karajá groups, formerly their enemies. After their traditional territory was occupied by cattle ranches, in the 1990s they managed to get official recognition of two indigenous areas, one of them in co-habitation with the Karajá. But in the Urubu Branco indigenous area they still face problems over land, because of invasions by farmers and prospectors.
