indigenous peoples in brazil
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When the Portuguese
discoverers first arrived in Brazil in April 1500, they found, to their
astonishment, a widely inhabited
coastline, teeming with hundreds of
thousands of indigenous people
living in a "paradise"
of natural riches
At the time of European
discovery, the territory of current day Brazil had as many as 2,000
nations and tribes. The indigenous peoples were traditionally mostly semi-
nomadic tribes who subsisted on hunting, fishing, gathering, and
migrant agriculture
On 18 January 2007, FUNAI census
reported that it had confirmed the presence of 67
different uncontacted tribes in Brazil, up from 40 in 2005.
With this addition Brazil has now
overtaken the island of New Guinea as the country having the largest number of
uncontacted peoples
Music :
Brazilian Anthem
song by birds
The Indigenous peoples in Brazil (Portuguese: povos indígenas no
Brasil) comprise a large number of distinct ethnic groups who
inhabited the country prior to the arrival of Europeans around 1500. Unlike Christopher Columbus, who thought he had reached the East
Indies, the Portuguese, most notably by Vasco da Gama, had
already reached India via the Indian Ocean route when they reached
Brazil.Nevertheless the word índios
("Indians"), was by then established to designate the peoples of the New World and stuck being used today
in the Portuguese language to designate these peoples, while the
people of India, Asia are called indianos in order to distinguish the
two peoples
Photos by:
Berenice Kauffmann Abud
Brazil and
“They were the unique human beings I've ever
seen, who understood to live autarkic and in
perfect harmony with their natural
environment ! “
Klaus D. Günter Germany
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