• 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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• Povo:Panará
  ...imated them, and twenty years of forced dislocation from their traditional lands of Peixoto de Azevedo River to the [[Povo:Xingu | Parque Indígena do Xingu In the 19th century the occupation of the lands southwest of Goiás compounded the conflicts with the Indians and drove the
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• Povo:Tapirapé
  ...eas, 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 ...planting, hunting, collecting and fishing.  At the moment they inhabit two indigenous areas, Tapirapé/Karajá, with 66.166 hectares, offically recognised in 198
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• Povo:Menky Manoki
  ...heir territory. Presently, both groups are making claims to increase their lands. ...e Manoki Indigenous Land, in the region of the Cravari River, and the Myky Indigenous Land, on the banks of the Papagaio River. The first has six villages: Pared
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• Povo:Krikatí
  Krĩkati lands have been invaded by cattle ranchers since the nineteenth century. However == Location and situation of lands ==
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• Povo:Iranxe Manoki
  ...heir territory. Presently, both groups are making claims to increase their lands. ...e Manoki Indigenous Land, in the region of the Cravari River, and the Myky Indigenous Land, on the banks of the Papagaio River. The first has six villages: Pared
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• Povo:Hixkaryana
  ...d used as a model to translate the Bible (New and Old Testaments) into the indigenous language (in the context of the Mapuera river), the Hixkaryana language (in ...we can produce a rough overview of the formation and dispersion of various indigenous groups in the valleys of the Nhamundá and Jatapu rivers.
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• Povo:Rikbaktsá
  ...(with 152,509 hectares, recognized and registered as well), and in a third Indigenous Land, do Escondido, demarcated in 1998 (with 168,938 hectares, it has been The Rikbaktsa were well known by the neighboring indigenous groups, with which, almost with no exception, they have maintained hostile
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• Povo:Korubo
  ...pressure from the group to learn Portuguese in order to interact with non-indigenous Brazilians more fluently. The Korubo often hear remarks and accounts from t ...ly – especially during conflicts with other ethnic groups and with the non-indigenous colonizers.
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• Povo:Araweté
  ...humans are ''bïde'', but humans par excellence are the Araweté. The other indigenous peoples and the whites (''kamarã'') are ''awi'', the "strangers" or "the e The Araweté live in the Araweté/Igarapé Ipixuna Indigenous Land, in the state of Pará.
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• Povo:Waimiri Atroari
  ...he name used by the Waimiri Atroari for themselves). The invasion of their lands intensified when a mining company began excavations and when a hydroelectri ...themselves Kinja (“true people”), in contrast to others: the kaminja (non-indigenous people), the makyma (left-handed people), and the irikwa (the living dead).
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• Povo:Xerente
  The 250 years of contact of the Xerente with non-indigenous peoples have not affected their ethnic identity. The rapid and intense soci ...ained their dialect alive. Children up to five years of age only speak the indigenous language. The adults use it in all contexts of daily life in the villages.
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• Povo:Pataxó
  ...304" tagname="a">History</htmltag>). Tracing a history of contact with non-indigenous people that goes back to the sixteenth century and often forced to hide the ...evant for it is the first specific reference to the presence of the Pataxó indigenous people within their traditional distribution area, i.e. between the north b
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• Povo:Macuxi
  ...me Court in 2009, which confirmed the ratification and the eviction of non-indigenous occupants. ...ortal/" tagname="a" target="_blank">'''Conselho Indigena de Roraima - CIR (Indigenous Council of Roraima)''' website</htmltag>
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• Povo:Karipuna de Rondônia
  ...re deaths from epidemics and cultural losses. Today they possess their own Indigenous Territory and look to protect it from the constant invasions of loggers, hu Ratified in 1998, the Karipuna Indigenous Territory (IT) is 152,930 ha in size and located in the municipalities of P
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• Povo:Terena
  ...e of Mato Grosso do Sul contains the second largest indigenous population of the country, second only to Amazonas.... ...ados (Guarani Indigenous Land) and in the state of São Paulo (TI "Araribá" Indigenous Land). In the last two places mentioned, Terena families were taken there d
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• Povo:Taurepang
  ...ontier 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 cuttin ...nym is much more frequently used in Venezuela for the large Karib-speaking indigenous population. A. B. Colson (1986:74) states that in the frontier region betwe
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• Povo:Nawa
  ...people") in many Pano-speaking societies, and was recently claimed by this indigenous group, now living inside the Serra do Divisor National Park, as the name by ...they are currently demanding the identification and delimitation of their lands. The official process for recognizing this area has already been initiated
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• Povo:Koripako
  ...t in the region. This movement includes a cultural complex of 22 different indigenous groups who are articulated through a network of trade and are very similar ...hese Indians to represent themselves in multiethnic contexts or to the non-indigenous world. The term “Walimanai” means "the other new generations who will b
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• Povo:Kisêdjê
  ...ê are the only group of the Gê language family in the [[Povo:Xingu | Xingu Indigenous Park]]. But since their arrival in the region (probably in the second half ...Kĩsêdjê in the process of metamorphosis into other animals, and from other indigenous groups. Thus the vision the Kĩsêdjê have themselves is of society formed
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• Povo:Aikewara
  ...ntal.org/caracterizacao.php?id_arp=3859" tagname="a" target="_self">Sororó Indigenous Land</htmltag> is situated in the southeast of Pará in the municipality of ...nd replaced by pastures; what is left of the forest is situated within the indigenous territory.
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• Povo:Canela Apanyekrá
  ...the Ramkokamekrá had less contact with the national society and with other indigenous groups than the Apanyekrá. After that, the situation became the reverse. H ...its orthographic variations, or even by Apanyekrá-Canela. Apanyekrá means "indigenous people of the piranha". Nimuendajú supposed that they were called by this
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• Povo:Canela Ramkokamekrá
  ...the Ramkokamekrá had less contact with the national society and with other indigenous groups than the Apanyekrá. After that, the situation became the reverse. H ...its orthographic variations, or even by Apanyekrá-Canela. Apanyekrá means "indigenous people of the piranha". Nimuendajú supposed that they were called by this
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• Povo:Tupari
  ...was primarily marked by their exploitation and the expropriation of their lands by rubber bosses, and after the 1980s by loggers and mineral prospectors. O ...o data from the NGO Kanindé (2005), there are 329 Tupari in the Rio Branco Indigenous Territory (IT), an area also occupied by the [[Povo:Makurap | Makurap]], [[
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• Povo:Ye'kwana
  ...worked in the area, the Ye’kuana are supposed to have settled on Brazilian lands more than a century ago. But the traditional leaders of Auaris say that the ...anoemakers and as great merchants. When the Sanuma appeared, the Maiongong lands were nearly empty as a result of epidemic diseases and slavery... The rifle
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• Povo:Zoró
  ...iental.org/caracterizacao.php?id_arp=3911" tagname="a" target="_self">Zoró Indigenous Land</htmltag> and its natural resources, as well as supporting school educ ...anioc. Zoró Indigenous Territory, Mato Grosso. Photo: APIZ - Zoró Pangyjej Indigenous Peoples Association, 2007.
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• Povo:Karajá
  ...ns to fight for their rights such as demarcation and preservation of their lands, and access to healthcare and bilingual education. ...es everyone understands each other. Due to the process of contact with non-indigenous society, Portuguese has become dominant in some villages such as Xambioá (
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• Povo:Gavião Parkatêjê
  ...the new village indicates: the ‘Comunidade Indígena Parkatêjê’ (‘Parkatêjê Indigenous Community’), a name actually created by the Gavião as an expression of t ...oambiental.org/en-us/#!/en-us/terras-indigenas/3750" tagname="a">Mãe Maria Indigenous Territory</htmltag>, located in the municipality of Bom Jesus do Tocantins
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• Povo:Yaminawá
  ...yllable, depending on the peoples. "Yaminawá" reflects more accurately the indigenous pronunciation (the Portuguese "j" does not exist in their language, nor doe ...Acre River, where another group of Yaminawá was already settled. Thus the Indigenous Land called Headwaters of the Acre River was consolidated, and interdicted
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• Povo:Mehinako
  ...re area/region known as the upper Xingu (encompassed by the [[Povo:Xingu | Indigenous Park of the Xingu]], the Mehinako belong to a broad complex of peoples who ...in such a way that they had no intention of returning to their traditional lands even though the threat posed by the Ikpeng had passed.
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• Povo:Yuhupdeh
  ...e of the Jurupari flutes (''Ti’''). Their more recent contact with the non-indigenous population means they have become renowned for still performing these ritua ...based on regular visits. These groups are located in the Yaigojé Apaporis indigenous reserve in Colombia, situated within the Amazonas and Vaupés departments.
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