News of this people
- Fotógrafo mostra cotidiano de índios do Parque Nacional do Xingu, no MT
15/05/2012 - Indígenas enviam carta denunciando abusos em seus territórios
29/11/2011 - Idioma de índios do Xingu está em risco de extinção
05/11/2011
Inhabited lands
- Xingu
Foto: René Fuerst, 1955
Yawalapiti
- Other names
- Where they are
MT - How many
156 (Ipeax, 2011) - Linguistic family
Aruak
Introduction
The Yawalapiti live in the southern part of the Xingu Indian Park, a region which has become known as the Upper Xingu, where different language-speaking groups in large part share the same cosmological repertoire, have similar ways of life and are interconnected through commercial trade, marriages and inter-village cerimonies. While general information on the Upper Xingu may be found on the page dedicated to the Park, this section reports on aspects of the Yawalapiti version of the Upper Xingu world, as well as several specific characteristics of this group.
