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The Pirahã (pronounced [piɾaˈhɐ̃]) [a] are an indigenous people of the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil. They are the sole surviving subgroup of the Mura people, and are hunter-gatherers. They live mainly on the banks of the Maici River in Humaitá and Manicoré in the state of Amazonas. As of 2018, they number 800 individuals. [2]
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.
[53] [54] They fear that the deal could lead to increased deforestation of the Amazon rainforest by expanding market access for Brazilian beef. [ 55 ] A 2019 report by the Indigenous Missionary Council on Violence Against Indigenous Peoples in Brazil documented an increase in invasions of Indigenous lands by loggers, miners, and land grabbers.
At night, in this village near the Assua River in Brazil, the rainforest reverberates. Until recently, the Juma people seemed destined to disappear like countless other Amazon tribes decimated by ...
Leaders of Amazon tribes gathered this week to plan resistance to Brazil's far-right government. Ritual dances and flashes of bird feathers kicked off a meeting to decide how to face Presdent Jair ...
In 1988 the US-based World Wildlife Fund (WWF) funded the musical Yanomamo, by Peter Rose and Anne Conlon, to convey what is happening to the people and their natural environment in the Amazon rainforest. [66] It tells of Yanomami tribesmen/tribeswomen living in the Amazon and has been performed by many drama groups around the world. [67]
In the 1960s and 1970s, Brazil's federal government attempted to assimilate and integrate native groups living in the Amazon jungle in order to use their lands for farming. [ citation needed ] Their efforts were met with mixed success and criticism until, in 1987, Brazil created the Department of Isolated Indians inside the Fundação Nacional ...
Deep in the Amazon rainforest, the world's largest area containing isolated and uncontacted tribes is under increasing threat from illegal logging and gold mining, advancing coca plantations and ...