News of this people
- Violação de direitos humanos na ditadura será discutida em audiência
25/04/2013 - Indígenas usam educação como ferramenta para recuperar tradições culturais
16/04/2013 - Índios da Raposa Serra do Sol entregam carta de reivindicações para o governo
15/04/2013
Inhabited lands
- Raposa Serra do Sol
- São Marcos
Taurepang
- Other names
Taulipang, Taurepangue, Taulipangue - Where they are
RR
Venezuela - How many
673 (Funasa, 2010)
27.157 (INE, 2001) - Linguistic family
Karib
Introduction
The majority of the Taurepang are found in the Venezuelan savannah. Those living on the Brazilian side of the border with Venezuela and Guyana are found in villages within the Terras Indígenas São Marcos and Raposa Serra do Sol, living alongside indians from other ethnic groups. Since the early decades of the 20th century they have been under pressure from the expanding cattle ranching frontier on the high plains of Roraima. The presence of non-indians on their lands intensified with the construction of the BR-174 highway in the 1970s cutting across the TI. In 2001 an electricity transmission line was also constructed alongside the highway. In exchange the indians saw the ranchers relocated, but continue to live with the problem of having the seat of the municipality located inside the TI.
