• News of this people

• Indígena move ação contra Funasa alegando negligência médica, em RO
  
  12/05/2013
• Após intervenção do MPF/RO, indígena processa Funasa por negligência
  
  22/02/2013
• Mais duas TIs são declaradas de posse permanente dos povos indígenas
  
  25/02/2011

• Inhabited lands

• Igarapé Lage
• Igarapé Ribeirão
• Pacaás-Novas
• Rio Guaporé
• Rio Negro/Ocaia
• Sagarana
• Rio Negro Ocaia (ampliação)

Wari'

Introduction

The Wari’ are often referred to as Pakaa Nova, as they were first sighted on the river of the same name, an affluent of the right bank of the Mamoré river in Rondônia state. But they prefer to be called Wari’, a word meaning ‘people’ or ‘us’ in their language: this is how they are known to the ‘civilized people’ (as they refer to Whites in Portuguese) who live in closest proximity to them. Today they live in villages built around seven Funai ("Fundação Nacional do Índio" - National Indian Foundation, governmental agency) Posts administrated by the Guajará-Mirim Support Team in Rondônia, as well as within the Sagarana Indigenous Territory, at the confluence of the Mamoré and Guaporé rivers, administrated by the Diocese of Guajará-Mirim.