• Povo:Pankaru
  ...s society, the Pankaru share in common with the other so-called “emergent” indigenous groups, the ritual secret of the "Toré", a mark of cultural identity and r Like all indigenous groups of the Northeast, with the exception of the Fulni-ô, the Pankaru pr
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• Povo:Chiquitano
  ...left to them. But the Chiquitano have been struggling for the right for an Indigenous Land of their own, which is in the process of being identified by Funai, an The word chiquito means 'small' in Spanish and is used to designate various Indigenous groups the inhabit the transition zone between the Chaco Boreal, in Bolivia
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• Povo:Puyanawa
  ...the Indians working under their yoke. The Puyanawa were expelled from the lands, missionized and education in schools that banned any expression of any tra ...e. The first measure taken by the rubber bosses was to prohibit use of the indigenous language and create a school for everyone to learn Portuguese. Anyone speak
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• Povo:Galibi do Oiapoque
  ...iendship of the military in Clevelândia do Norte. For these reasons, their lands were quickly homologated. ...Cluny, in French Guiana, whoever spoke patuá was punished. There, only the indigenous languages and French were permitted.
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• Povo:Guajajara
  ...e of Brazil's most numerous indigenous peoples. They live in 11 Indigenous Lands at the eastern margin of the Amazon region, all of them located in Maranhã All 11 Indigenous Lands inhabited by the Guajajara are located in the centre of Maranhão State, in
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• Who are they?
  Brazil turned 500 in 2000 and still ignores the immense diversity of the Indigenous peoples living in its territory. It is estimated that, at the time the Euro ...troducao/o-que-sao-terras-indigenas" tagname="a" target="_self">Indigenous Lands</htmltag> (TIs) - spread throughout the national territory.
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• Povo:Ofaié
  ...survivors remained, that they managed to recover a small portion of their lands, still yet to be ratified by the Brazilian President. ...there was an indigenous teacher. The textbook used is the same as the non-indigenous municipal education system (1st to 4th grades).
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• Povo:Kaxarari
  ...ocate through the region in search of better living conditions since their lands have been a continual target of predatory actions by non-Indians seeking to ''Kaxarari'', like so many other names used to designate the indigenous peoples of Western Amazonia, derives from interethnic contact.
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• The work of linguists
  ...is still much to be done when it comes to having a better knowledge of the Indigenous languages spoken in Brazil. Of the approximately 180 of them, a 1995 survey Figures and percentages can be very eloquent when one speaks of Indigenous languages in Brazil, a country that is still multi-lingual.
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• Povo:Arara do Rio Branco
  ...ed and without their land.  The recognition of their land rights and their indigenous identity only happened about a decade  ago, after many years of struggle. ...itory lies between the Branco and Guariba rivers.  The Arara of Rio Branco Indigenous Area  was ratified on  26th December 1996 and registered on 1st April 197
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• Povo:Krenak
  ...ro Pena, where they still live, in a 4,000-hectare reservation. The Krenak Indigenous Post was created by the Serviço Nacional do Índio (National Service for t ...of “Just War” against them. It was also the argument used to convince the indigenous groups that were constantly in confrontation with the Botocudo – Tupi, Ma
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• Povo:Jamamadi
  The Jamamadi are among the little known indigenous peoples of the region of the Juruá and Purús rivers who survived the two ...denomination remains open. The Jamamadi of the Jarawara/Jamamadi/Kanamanti Indigenous Land are recognized by this name in contacts with non-Indians or with membe
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• Povo:Jiahui
  ...] or in nearby cities. In the midst of conflicts, the process of regaining indigenous territory was begun in 1998, in which the Jiahui have sought to reorganize ...itory and the group practically broke up due to conflicts with neighboring indigenous groups, as well as the setting up of ranches and illegal extraction of lumb
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• Povo:Kanoê
  ...er agents who often threaten the integrity and exclusive usufruct of their lands. ...ccording to the leader José Augusto Kanoê, they are aware that they are an indigenous people united by a common origin and by ties of kinship, and because of thi
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• Povo:Avá-Canoeiro
  ...a Indigenous Land; in the Canoanã Indigenous Post and in the Araguaia Park Indigenous Land, in the municipalities of Formoso do Araguaia, Lagoa da Confusão, San ...bly lives in the Northern part of Bananal Island, inside the Araguaia Park Indigenous Land, in the State of Tocantins.
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• Povo:Xipaya
  ...ltamira later flourished and where they were always marginalized and their indigenous rights denied. Today they are distributed between this town and the village ...r history includes a period when they were forced to migrate to Mebengokre lands, many of them know how to communicate in the Kayapó language (Ge trunk), h
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• Povo:Arikapú
  The Arikapú represent an indigenous tribe that traditionally lived in the south of Rondônia. The language of t ...ipecacuanha). They furthermore introduced infectious diseases to which the indigenous groups had no immunological resistance.
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• Povo:Nukini
  ...uá that make up a large region of socio-environmental importance for their indigenous and regional populations, and where national and international interests co ...nturies by the resident population of the area, including the Nukini whose lands are home to a large part of the biodiversity.
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• Povo:Djeoromitxí
  The Djeoromitxí represent an indigenous tribe that traditionally lived in the south of Rondônia. The language of t ...ipecacuanha). They furthermore introduced infectious diseases to which the indigenous groups had no immunological resistance.
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• Povo:Tsohom-dyapa
  ...#!/en-us/terras-indigenas/3895" tagname="a" target="_blank">Vale do Javari Indigenous Land</htmltag>. Though very little is known about them, they undoubtedly sp ...sporadic contacts with the Kanamari and occasionally with the region’s non-indigenous population.
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• Povo:Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau
  ...e Southwest (on the mid-Cautário River) and the other in the center of the Indigenous Land (on the Água Branca Stream). ...ease occurred among the Amondawa population. In 1995 the population of the Indigenous Land rose to114 people; in 2000, it was 160 people; and in 2002 it was 168
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• Povo:Tapeba
  ...comprise a distinct group within the regional society, discussion of their indigenous identity has marked their recent history, particularly the process of offic ...ra dos Prazeres de Caucaia, demanding from the FUNAI the demarcation of an indigenous area.Tapeba is also a toponym. It is the name of a lake and temporary strea
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• Povo:Sakurabiat
  ...ory and set up lumbermills. In their struggle for the demarcation of their lands, they were accused by the invaders of they themselves being the invaders of ...gnation, besides referring to the people who today live on the Rio Mequéns Indigenous Land, was also a general designation attributed since the 17th Century to p
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• Povo:Manchineri
  ...n-us/#!/en-us/terras-indigenas/3752" tagname="a" target="_blank">Mamoadate Indigenous Territory</htmltag>, though there are still many families living in rubber ...n-us/#!/en-us/terras-indigenas/3752" tagname="a" target="_blank">Mamoadate Indigenous Territory (IT)</htmltag> and the <htmltag href="http://ti.socioambiental.or
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• Povo:Oro Win
  ...l.org/#!/terras-indigenas/3891" tagname="a" target="_blank">Uru-eu-wau-wau Indigenous Land</htmltag> in Rondônia, located in the headwater region of the Pacaás Occupation of their land by other indigenous groups began at the start of the 20th century when the [[Povo:Uru-Eu-Wau-Wa
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• Povo:Munduruku
  This indigenous group belongs to the Munduruku language family, a branch of the Tupi trunk. ...irts of the city of Itaituba, and in the communities of the Coatá-Laranjal Indigenous Land, in the state of Amazonas. 
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• Povo:Pankararu
  == Location and history of the Indigenous Land == ...oambiental.org/pt-br/#!/pt-br/terras-indigenas/3787" tagname="a">Pankararu Indigenous Land</htmltag>, officially approved in 1987, is located between the current
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• Povo:Apinajé
  ...oducao" tagname="a" target="_self">official demarcation</htmltag> of their lands, which they have been trying to recover. ...the area, and the Funai, in 1994, established a work group to identify the indigenous area called Apinajé II; this process since then has been going through bur
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• Povo:Umutina
  ...s. They were described and treated by the latter as aggressive and violent indigenous peoples who used force to prevent the invasion of their tribal territory. D The Umutina no longer speak the indigenous language, classified as a member of the Bororo family from the Macro-Ge lin
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• Povo:Bakairi
  They live in the state of Mato Grosso, on the Bakairi Indigenous Lands (61,405.5905 hectares) and Santana (35,479.7443 hectares). In both, shrub f The Bakairi Indigenous Land is almost entirely located in the municipality of Paranatinga, on the
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• Povo:Paumari
  ...survive without armed conflicts the two rubber booms, which crushed other indigenous peoples of the region in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. The proper name is Pamoari, but for communication with the whites and other indigenous ethnic groups they generally use the denomination Paumari. Pamoari has vari
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• Povo:Mura
  ...General Language)</htmltag> in exchange with the whites, blacks and other indigenous peoples. In the 20th century, portuguese became the main language used. Cur ...By saying "''caboclo''", the Mura allude to the biological component, the indigenous blood, even if mixed; by "legitimate", they signal belonging to a specified
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• Povo:Tenharim
  Tenharim is the name by which are known three indigenous groups who live today in the mid Madeira River, in the Southern portion of ...all bilingual. However, on the Igarapé Preto and on the Sepoti River, the indigenous language has been almost lost and now is being revived. Among the Tenharim
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• Povo:Tembé
  ...l population. In the past few years, in spite of the homologation of their lands, they have been forced to live alongside hundreds of 'posseiro' (illegal fa ...Max Boudin. The Tembé that live near the Guamá River no longer speak their Indigenous tongue. Those who live on both margins of the Gurupi River, on the other ha
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• Povo:Tumbalalá
  ...d political trade that sustain their ethnogenesis on the plane of emerging indigenous identities and place them in the ethnographic domain of the Indians of the ...of the use of fragments of a lexicon that could be referred back to a past indigenous language. Nevertheless, words associated with the ritual objects of the tor
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• Povo:Kadiwéu
  ...Paraguayan War, an event that - as they tell - led to recognition of their lands. ...es) in Kadiwéu speech. The Guaikurú-Mbayá took captives from various other indigenous peoples, above all the Xamakôko, inhabitants of a region of Paraguay, thei
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• Povo:Zo'é
  ...sions, the Zo’é do not use other terms to define, for example, neighboring indigenous groups. In a few circumstances, they differentiate the kirahi ete, the true ...icates that they’ve attempted to keep their distance both from neighboring indigenous peoples, whom they treat as enemies, and from the whites for decades;</li>
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• Povo:Tapayuna
  ...umerable times by rubber tappers, prospectors and loggers, among other non-indigenous invaders. ...by invaders. The 41 survivors were transferred to the [[Povo:Xingu | Xingu Indigenous Park]], living at first in the village of the [[Povo:Kisêdjê | Kĩsêdjê
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• Povo:Ikolen
  ...hin the Terra Indígena (TI) Igarapé Lourdes, which they share with another indigenous group, the Karo. ...Gavião or the Gavião de Rondônia, a way of distinguishing them from other indigenous groups also known as Gavião, such as the: [[Povo:Gavião Parkatêjê | Gav
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• Povo:Apurinã
  ...the Amazon region. Today they are fighting for their rights. Some of their lands have still not been officially recognised and are constantly invaded by log ...are in the identification study phase. The total area of those Indigenous Lands fully demarcated is 1,819,502 hectares; of these two are shared with the [[
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• Povo:Kaiabi
  ...igns inspired by their mythology, and by their active participation in the indigenous movement organized in defense of the interests of the ethnic groups of the ...jahis, Cajabis, Kajabi, Caiabis, Cayabi, Kayabi etc). Nowadays the group's indigenous teachers have settled on the form Kaiabi, which explains the reason for its
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• Povo:Deni
  ...aranteed, and even then only after a campaign for the demarcation of their lands, supported by several NGOs, which succeeded in getting official demarcation ...org/en-us/#!/en-us/terras-indigenas/3655" tagname="a" target="_blank">Deni Indigenous Land</htmltag> is located in the region that separates the drainage basin o
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• Povo:Timbira
  ...the then village of Caxias, in the State of Maranhão, to the north of the lands of these peoples, which had just been conquered, did not have much contact The meaning of their indigenous names is indicated in their respective entries. As for the general name, Ti
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• Povo:Kambeba
  ...eir considerable capacity for political negotiation and liaison with other indigenous groups, government agencies and both religious and secular non-governmental In Peru, the Omágua inhabit lands close to the capital, Lima, and on the outskirts of the city. In 1994, this
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• Povo:Maxakali
  ...mselves Monacó bm. However, Joaquim S. de Souza, former chief of the local Indigenous Post and an expert on the Maxacalí language, social organization and histo ...c invasion of their lands began to take place and the conflicts with other indigenous groups, particularly those known as Botocudos, increased.
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• Povo:Makurap
  ...of the peoples concerned. In these areas, Makurap is still the predominant indigenous language in the chicha-fueled festivals that remain one of the distinctive Today the Makurap inhabit three Indigenous Territories: Rio Guaporé, Rio Mequens and Rio Branco, as well as neighbour
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• Povo:Kujubim
  ...n of their traditional territory and the assertion of their constitutional indigenous rights. ...’. The term suggests an already existent symbolic relationship between the indigenous people and the cujubim bird, which has an all black body except for white f
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• Povo:Arara Shawãdawa
  Like the other indigenous groups in Acre, the Arara Shawãdawa  suffered the effects of  incursions ...hin the group. Thus, many Arara young people and children are learning the indigenous language with teachers trained by CPI-Acre.  The language spoken by the Ar
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• Povo:Puruborá
  ...counts for a population of 220 individuals in Puruborá in 2015. The COMIN (Indigenous Peoples Mission Council, a body linked to the The Evangelical Church of the ...e known scientifically and is a critical example of the risk faced by most indigenous languages in Brazil. It is among the Tupi tree languages which are most at
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• Povo:Kulina
  ...ocated near urban centers, no-one knows of any Kulina living outside their lands. ...y is changing this reality. Many young people have been training to become indigenous teachers, agro-forestry agents, and health workers, especially after 1970 w
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