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 …

Indigenous peoples in Brazil or Native Brazilians (Portuguese: Brasileiros nativos) are the peoples who lived in Brazil before European contact around 1500 and their descendants. Indigenous peoples once comprised an estimated 2,000 district tribes and nations inhabiting what is …

The history of Brazil’s Indigenous peoples has been marked by brutality, slavery, violence, disease and genocide. When the first European colonists arrived in 1500, what is now Brazil was inhabited by an estimated 11 million Indigenous people, living in about 2,000 tribes.

Documents from different times, countries and institutions show different criteria for identifying who is Indigenous, based in concepts such as race, cultural traits or economic development. In Brazil, the most accepted criterion nowadays is that of ethnic self-identification.

The story of Brazil’s Indigenous peoples begins in Siberia, 17,000 years ago. Over centuries they migrated south to the Brazilian lands, creating two major groups. The Tupi settled along Brazil’s Atlantic coast while the Tapuia settled in the interior.

There are around 240 indigenous tribes in Brazil today, from the savannahs and Atlantic forest of the south, to the dry interior of the north-east. Who are the tribes, how do they live and what does the future hold for them?

The tables below show the Indigenous peoples that live in each Brazilian State. The links take to more detailed information on each people. Where are they? This page was last edited on 16 February 2018, at 15:32. © All rights reserved.

2024年3月20日 · The Indian tribes of Brazil were hunting and gathering tribes that lived in a few pockets of Brazil (in Eastern and Southern Brazil) and tropical forest village farmers (in the Amazon basin, the lowlands of coastal Brazil, and the eastern slopes of Peru and Bolívia).

2016年1月22日 · In the beginning of Brazil’s History when the European colonists arrived in 1500, our country was inhabited by an estimated 11 million Indians, living in over 2,000 tribes with a total of between 2 and 4 million people.

2024年9月2日 · From the lushness of the Amazon to the diversity of the Atlantic Forest, each indigenous tribe holds a vital piece of Brazil’s cultural mosaic, sharing invaluable knowledge about environmental stewardship and respect for the land.