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This is a list of the Brazil's Indigenous or Native peoples.

This is a sortable listing of peoples, associated languages, Indigenous locations, and population estimates with dates. A particular group listing may include more than one area because the group is distributed in more than one area.

Background

The Indigenous peoples in Brazil (Portuguese: povos indígenas no Brasil) comprise a large number of distinct ethnic groups, who have inhabited the country prior to the European. The word índios ("Indians"), was by then established to designate the people of the Americas and is still used today in the Portuguese language to designate these peoples, while the people of Asiatic India are called indianos.

At the time of first European contact, some of the Indigenous peoples were traditionally semi-nomadic tribes who subsisted on hunting, fishing, gathering, agriculture, and arboriculture. Many of the estimated 2,000 nations and tribes which existed in the 16th century died out as a consequence of the European settlement. Most of the Indigenous population died due to European diseases and warfare, declining from an estimated pre-Columbian high of millions to some 300,000 in 1997, grouped into some 200 tribes. A few tribes were assimilated into the Brazilian population.

In 2007, FUNAI reported that it had confirmed the presence of 67 different uncontacted tribes in Brazil, an increase from 40 in 2005. With this addition Brazil has now surpassed New Guinea as the country having the largest number of uncontacted peoples.

Seven Terras Indígenas (TI) (Reservations) are exclusively reserved for isolated people:

• TI Alto Tarauacá in Acre – Various tribes. (Isolados do Alto Tarauacá)
• TI Hi-Merimã in Amazonas – Himerimã. (Isolados do médio Purus)
• TI Massaco in Rondônia – Sirionó (Isolados do rio São Simão)
• TI Igarapé Omerê in Rondônia – Kanoe do Omerê & Akuntsu
• TI Rio Muqui in Rondônia – Isolados das cabeceiras do rio Muqui (Given as Miqueleno-Kujubim in the table).
• TI Rio Pardo in Mato Grosso and Amazonas – Isolados do Rio Pardo (Tupi–Guarani–Kawahibi).
• TI Xinane isolados in Acre – Unidentified.

Table of Indigenous peoples of Brazil

See also

• List of Indigenous territories (Brazil)

References

1. ^ "List of indigenous peoples - Indigenous Peoples in Brazil". pib.socioambiental.org. Retrieved 2023-05-11.
2. ^ "Languages of Brazil." Ethnologue. Retrieved 25 Feb 2013.
3. https://www.survivalinternational.de/indigene/akuntsu
4. ^ "Table of the Indigenous peoples." Povos Indígenas no Brasil. Retrieved 3 Feb 2013.
5. ^ "Chamacoco." Ethnologue. Retrieved 4 Feb 2013.
6. "Enawenê-nawê: Introduction." Instituto Socioambiental: Povos Indígenas no Brasil. Retrieved 28 March 2012
7. "Kulina." Ethnologue. Retrieved 19 Feb 2012.
8. "Manchineri: Introduction." Povos Indígenas no Brasil. Retrieved 20 Feb 2012.
9. "Mehinako: Introduction." Instituto Socioambiental: Povos Indígenas no Brasil. Retrieved 14 March 2012
10. "Nadob." Povos Indígenas no Brasil. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
11. "Tenharim language code: pah". Retrieved 2010-12-11.
12. ^ "Pai Tavytera." Ethnologue. Retrieved 17 Jan 2013.
13. "Tremembé." Povos indígenas do Brasil. Retrieved 31 Jul 2022.
14. "Trumai: Introduction." Povos Indígenas no Brasil. Retrieved 24 Feb 2012.

External links

• Table of the Indigenous peoples, Povos Indígenas no Brasil

• Indigenous peoples in Brazil
• Lists of indigenous peoples of the Americas
• Lists of Brazilian people