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font-weight:normal;"><div><a href="/wiki/Mat%C3%ADs_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Matís language">Matís</a>: <i lang="mpq">Matses</i></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Matis_tribe_base.PNG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Matis_tribe_base.PNG/220px-Matis_tribe_base.PNG" decoding="async" width="220" height="157" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Matis_tribe_base.PNG/330px-Matis_tribe_base.PNG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/Matis_tribe_base.PNG 2x" data-file-width="417" data-file-height="298" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de; color:inherit;">Total population</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">390 (2010)<sup id="cite_ref-intro_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-intro-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de; color:inherit;">Regions with significant populations</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/40px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/60px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="700" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil">Brazil</a> (<span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Bandeira_do_Amazonas.svg/40px-Bandeira_do_Amazonas.svg.png" decoding="async" width="21" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Bandeira_do_Amazonas.svg/60px-Bandeira_do_Amazonas.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="700" data-file-height="500" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Amazonas_(Brazilian_state)" title="Amazonas (Brazilian state)">Amazonas</a>)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de; color:inherit;">Languages</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/Matis_language" title="Matis language">Matis language</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-ethno_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ethno-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_language" title="Portuguese language">Portuguese</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de; color:inherit;">Religion</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">traditional tribal religion</td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Not to be confused with <a href="/wiki/M%C3%A9tis" title="Métis">Métis</a> or <a href="/wiki/Matses" class="mw-redirect" title="Matses">Matses</a>.</div> <p>The <b>Matis people</b> (also called Matsë in their own native language) are an <a href="/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_in_Brazil" title="Indigenous peoples in Brazil">indigenous people of Brazil</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-intro_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-intro-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Outsiders sometimes call them the Jaguar People, but they do not like the name. They currently live in the far west of <a href="/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil">Brazil</a>, in the <a href="/wiki/Vale_do_Javari_Indigenous_Territory" class="mw-redirect" title="Vale do Javari Indigenous Territory">Vale do Javari Indigenous Territory</a>, an area covering 83,000 square kilometres (32,000 sq mi). They practice hunting, fishing, foraging and agriculture. They work as teachers, health assistants, and surveillance of the territory for FUNAI, among other jobs, and the elders receive pensions from the government (registered as retired farmers, as other traditional communities also have the right for in Brazil). </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Name">Name</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Matis&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Name"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Matis people's own names for themselves include the "Mushabo" ("the tattooed people" or possibly "the people of the <a href="/wiki/Bactris_gasipaes" title="Bactris gasipaes">peach palm</a>"), the "Deshan Mikitbo" (possibly "people of the headwaters"),<sup id="cite_ref-intro_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-intro-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the Matses.<sup id="cite_ref-intro_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-intro-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "Matses" means "person" or "human being" in Matis and related Panoan languages and can also refer to a related neighboring group known as the <a href="/wiki/Matses" class="mw-redirect" title="Matses">Matses</a> or Mayoruma.<sup id="cite_ref-intro_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-intro-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The name Matis was given to them by non-indigenous outsiders, in particular <a href="/wiki/Funai" title="Funai">Funai</a> officials.<sup id="cite_ref-intro_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-intro-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Their ritual body modifications include "whiskers" that have caused some journalists or filmmakers to refer to them as the "Jaguar People", but they do not prefer this name. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Language">Language</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Matis&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Language"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Matis_language" title="Matis language">Matis language</a> belongs to the <a href="/wiki/Panoan_languages" title="Panoan languages">Panoan family</a><sup id="cite_ref-ethno_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ethno-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> from the Amazonian area of Brazil. Almost all Matis men and many Matis women speak some Portuguese in addition to Matis. <sup id="cite_ref-intro_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-intro-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Region">Region</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Matis&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Region"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Matis live in the far west of <a href="/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil">Brazil</a>, in the <a href="/wiki/Vale_do_Javari_Indigenous_Territory" class="mw-redirect" title="Vale do Javari Indigenous Territory">Vale do Javari Indigenous Territory</a>, an area covering 83,000 square kilometres (32,000 sq mi) in three separate communities or villages called <a href="/wiki/Maloca" title="Maloca">maloca</a> with a total population of roughly 340. They originally lived in the region between the Itui and Itacoai rivers but were displaced during the turmoil of the "first contact" period of the 1970s and 1980s.<sup id="cite_ref-intro_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-intro-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Access to the Vale do Javari Indigenous Territory is limited by the government of Brazil to protect the indigenous groups inhabiting the area and the environment on which they depend for their traditional lifeways from exploitation by loggers, miners, poachers, drug traffickers and others. Several other indigenous peoples live in this territory, including the <a href="/wiki/Kanamari" class="mw-redirect" title="Kanamari">Kanamari</a> and the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsohom_Djapa&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tsohom Djapa (page does not exist)">Tsohom Djapa</a>, who sepak languages in the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Katukina_family&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Katukina family (page does not exist)">Katukina family</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Marubo" class="mw-redirect" title="Marubo">Marubo</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Kulina_Pano" class="mw-redirect" title="Kulina Pano">Kulina Pano</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Korubo" title="Korubo">Korubo</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Matses" class="mw-redirect" title="Matses">Matses</a> or Mayoruna, who speak <a href="/wiki/Panoan_languages" title="Panoan languages">Panoan languages</a> like the Matis. The region is also home to certain other groups of <a href="/wiki/Uncontacted_peoples" title="Uncontacted peoples">uncontacted peoples</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-intro_1-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-intro-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Contact with uncontacted peoples is prohibited by the government of Brazil, even with respect to other indigenous groups living traditional lifeways, but state capacity is low in these areas and monitoring or enforcement is difficult.<sup id="cite_ref-Unconquered_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unconquered-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Culture">Culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Matis&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Matis practice various forms of ritual body modification, including extensive tattooing featuring both traditional and modern designs. They wear facial ornaments including "whiskers" made of sticks, bone piercings, and ear and lip gauges made of shells and other materials.<sup id="cite_ref-Unconquered_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unconquered-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Matis traditionally used blowguns and bows and arrows for hunting, though in modern times they have supplemented these with shotguns.<sup id="cite_ref-intro_1-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-intro-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Blowguns in particular are still preferred for certain tasks like hunting monkeys where they outperform the firearms available. <sup id="cite_ref-Unconquered_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unconquered-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-intro_1-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-intro-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Poison for blowgun darts is made from local vines. <sup id="cite_ref-intro_1-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-intro-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Matis also set traps for various species of game. <sup id="cite_ref-intro_1-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-intro-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Species hunted include the <a href="/wiki/Peccary" title="Peccary">peccary</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tapir" title="Tapir">tapir</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sloth" title="Sloth">sloth</a>, several species of monkey, and <a href="/wiki/Caiman" title="Caiman">caiman</a>. Birds hunted include the <a href="/wiki/Macaw" title="Macaw">macaw</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Currasaw&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Currasaw (page does not exist)">currasaw</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Penelope_bird&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Penelope bird (page does not exist)"> jacu</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cujubim" title="Cujubim">cujubim</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Nhambu-hen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nhambu-hen (page does not exist)">nhambu-hen</a>. Fish caught and eaten include the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Cara_(fish)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cara (fish) (page does not exist)">cara</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Leporinus_piau&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Leporinus piau (page does not exist)">piau</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Tamboata&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tamboata (page does not exist)">tamboata</a>, <a href="/wiki/Traira" class="mw-redirect" title="Traira">traira</a>, <a href="/wiki/Poraque" class="mw-redirect" title="Poraque">poraque</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pirana" class="mw-redirect" title="Pirana">pirana</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Matipiri&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Matipiri (page does not exist)">matipiri</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Branquinha_(fish)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Branquinha (fish) (page does not exist)">branquinha</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Curumata&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Curumata (page does not exist)">curumata</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pacu" title="Pacu">pacu</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Pirarucu" class="mw-redirect" title="Pirarucu">pirarucu</a>. The eggs of the <a href="/wiki/Yellow-spotted_river_turtle" title="Yellow-spotted river turtle">yellow-spotted river turtle</a> are also collected and eaten.<sup id="cite_ref-intro_1-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-intro-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Plant foods foraged from the jungle include patauá, buriti, puna (fruit), cocoa and cupu. Some fruit trees harvested by the Matis were planted by previous generations in villages that were deserted during the turmoil of the first contact period.<sup id="cite_ref-intro_1-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-intro-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is likely that other jungle resources reflect pre-contact permaculture work as well. <sup id="cite_ref-Mann_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mann-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Matis farm cassava, banana, <a href="/wiki/Peach_palm" class="mw-redirect" title="Peach palm">peach palm</a>, and corn as staples. Farming among the Matis takes place in rotating, deliberately burned areas called rocas. Each roca is planted with a succession of crops over several growing seasons, and then left to rewild once productivity decreases.<sup id="cite_ref-intro_1-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-intro-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Before contact, the Matis assumed passenger airplanes were <i>xokeke</i>, the spirits of their ancestors. They also assumed bush planes were <i>binkeke</i>, a kind of strange demon-bird. This tribe saw the two kinds of airplanes as distinct phenomena, since passenger planes would appear to be smaller than the bush planes (which fly closer to the ground).<sup id="cite_ref-Unconquered_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unconquered-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Matis&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Amazon_rainforest#History" title="Amazon rainforest">Amazon rainforest § History</a>, and <a href="/wiki/History_of_South_America#Amazon" title="History of South America">History of South America § Amazon</a></div> <p>Little is known about the Matis specifically before the 1970s, but they were likely affected along with other indigenous tribes of the area, by the depredations associated with the <a href="/wiki/Amazon_rubber_cycle#Effects_on_indigenous_population" title="Amazon rubber cycle"> Amazon rubber booms</a> of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id=""First_Contact"_Period"><span id=".22First_Contact.22_Period"></span>"First Contact" Period</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Matis&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: "First Contact" Period"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Matis people were contacted by the Brazilian agency <a href="/wiki/FUNAI" class="mw-redirect" title="FUNAI">FUNAI</a> during 1976-1978, although it was not until two years later in 1978 that FUNAI employees began visiting the then-five Matis villages. </p><p>As a result of this initial contact, a large number (likely between 1/3 and 2/3) of the Matis population, devoid of natural <a href="/wiki/Immunity_(medical)" class="mw-redirect" title="Immunity (medical)">immunity</a>, died from diseases and from lack of care.<sup id="cite_ref-intro_1-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-intro-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By 1983, only 87 Matis people survived, down from a population of initially 300 or more people.<sup id="cite_ref-intro_1-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-intro-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The decade also saw the loss of three of their villages which now, completely abandoned, are occasionally visited by the Matis to harvest fruit trees. </p><p>Many cultural practices also fell by the wayside, including coming-of-age tattooing practices, but some of these practices have seen a resurgence since the 1990s.<sup id="cite_ref-intro_1-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-intro-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Current_relationship_with_broader_Brazilian_society">Current relationship with broader Brazilian society</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Matis&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Current relationship with broader Brazilian society"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Many elder Matis traditionalists are keen to retain, and in some cases, readopt their old way of life, many younger Matis have been influenced by the modern outside world and want closer ties with modern Brazil, particularly for education.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Matis collaborate with <a href="/wiki/FUNAI" class="mw-redirect" title="FUNAI">FUNAI</a> in various ways, serving as guides and translators during Amazonian expeditions of various kinds<sup id="cite_ref-Unconquered_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unconquered-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and liaising between FUNAI and the <a href="/wiki/Korubo" title="Korubo">Korubo</a>, a subset of whom have recently become a contact-tribe.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On October 31, 2009, members of the Matis tribe located nine survivors of a plane crash near the <a href="/wiki/Itu%C3%AD_River" title="Ituí River">Ituí River</a> then contacted the Brazilian Air Force.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2014/2015, a conflict between the Matis and the Korubo resulted in two Matis fatalities and seven to fifteen Korbuo fatalities.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Matis&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output 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href="/wiki/Juma_people" title="Juma people">Juma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Korubo" title="Korubo">Korubo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kulina_people" title="Kulina people">Kulina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Macuna" title="Macuna">Macuna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maw%C3%A9_people" title="Mawé people">Mawé</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Matis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mats%C3%A9s" title="Matsés">Matsés</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Munduruku" title="Munduruku">Munduruku</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mura_people" title="Mura people">Mura</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parintint%C3%ADn" title="Parintintín">Parintintín</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pirah%C3%A3_people" title="Pirahã people">Pirahã</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pira-tapuya" title="Pira-tapuya">Pira-tapuya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siriano" title="Siriano">Siriano</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tariana_people" title="Tariana people">Tariana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Temb%C3%A9" title="Tembé">Tembé</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tenharim" title="Tenharim">Tenharim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ticuna" title="Ticuna">Ticuna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tiriy%C3%B3_people" title="Tiriyó people">Tiriyó</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tucano_people" title="Tucano people">Tucano</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turiw%C3%A1ra" title="Turiwára">Turiwára</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wai-wai_people" title="Wai-wai people">Wai-wai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wayampi" title="Wayampi">Wayampi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wayana" title="Wayana">Wayana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_Amazonian_Indians" title="White Amazonian Indians">White Indians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Witoto_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Witoto people">Witoto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yanomami" title="Yanomami">Yanomami</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zuruah%C3%A3" title="Zuruahã">Zuruahã</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Par%C3%A1" title="Pará">Pará</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amanay%C3%A9" title="Amanayé">Amanayé</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anamb%C3%A9_people" title="Anambé people">Anambé</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aparai_people" title="Aparai people">Aparai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apiac%C3%A1" title="Apiacá">Apiacá</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arara_(Par%C3%A1)" title="Arara (Pará)">Arara</a> (Pará)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arawet%C3%A9" title="Araweté">Araweté</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atikum" title="Atikum">Atikum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karaj%C3%A1" title="Karajá">Karajá</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kayapo" title="Kayapo">Kayapo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K%E1%BB%B3ikat%C3%AAj%C3%AA_people" title="Kỳikatêjê people">Kỳikatêjê</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Munduruku" title="Munduruku">Munduruku</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parkat%C3%AAj%C3%AA_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Parkatêjê people">Parkatêjê</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parakan%C3%A3_people" title="Parakanã people">Parakanã</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suru%C3%AD_(Par%C3%A1)" title="Suruí (Pará)">Suruí (Pará)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Temb%C3%A9" title="Tembé">Tembé</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tiriy%C3%B3_people" title="Tiriyó people">Tiriyó</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turiw%C3%A1ra" title="Turiwára">Turiwára</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wai-wai_people" title="Wai-wai people">Wai-wai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wayampi" title="Wayampi">Wayampi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wayana" title="Wayana">Wayana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zo%27%C3%A9" class="mw-redirect" title="Zo'é">Zo'é</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Rond%C3%B4nia" title="Rondônia">Rondônia</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aikan%C3%A3_people" title="Aikanã people">Aikanã</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akuntsu" title="Akuntsu">Akuntsu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arara_(Rond%C3%B4nia)" title="Arara (Rondônia)">Arara</a> (Rondônia)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cinta_Larga" title="Cinta Larga">Cinta Larga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gavi%C3%A3o_(Rond%C3%B4nia)" title="Gavião (Rondônia)">Gavião</a> (Rondônia)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kano%C3%AA" title="Kanoê">Kanoê</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karitiana" title="Karitiana">Karitiana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kwaza_people" title="Kwaza people">Kwaza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paiter" title="Paiter">Paiter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau" title="Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau">Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wari%E2%80%99" class="mw-redirect" title="Wari’">Wari’</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Roraima" title="Roraima">Roraima</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Akawaio_people" title="Akawaio people">Akawaio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Macushi" title="Macushi">Macushi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patamona_people" title="Patamona people">Patamona</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pemon" title="Pemon">Pemon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wapishana" title="Wapishana">Wapishana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yanomami" title="Yanomami">Yanomami</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ye%27kuana" class="mw-redirect" title="Ye'kuana">Ye'kuana</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Tocantins" title="Tocantins">Tocantins</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Apinaj%C3%A9_people" title="Apinajé people">Apinajé</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karaj%C3%A1" title="Karajá">Karajá</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Krah%C3%B4" title="Krahô">Krahô</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tapirap%C3%A9" title="Tapirapé">Tapirapé</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xambio%C3%A1" title="Xambioá">Xambioá</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xerente" title="Xerente">Xerente</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Northeast_Region480" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Indigenous peoples of the <a href="/wiki/Northeast_Region,_Brazil" title="Northeast Region, Brazil">Northeast Region</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Bahia" title="Bahia">Bahia</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Patax%C3%B3_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Pataxó people">Pataxó</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Cear%C3%A1" title="Ceará">Ceará</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kiriri_people" title="Kiriri people">Kiriri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tabajara_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Tabajara people">Tabajara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tapeba_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Tapeba people">Tapeba</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Maranh%C3%A3o" title="Maranhão">Maranhão</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aw%C3%A1-Guaj%C3%A1_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Awá-Guajá people">Awá-Guajá</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canela_people" title="Canela people">Canela</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guajajara" title="Guajajara">Guajajara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ka%27apor_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Ka'apor people">Ka'apor</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Krikati&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Krikati (page does not exist)">Krĩkatí</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pykobj%C3%AA_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Pykobjê people">Gavião-Pykobjê</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Para%C3%ADba" title="Paraíba">Paraíba</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Potiguara_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Potiguara people">Potiguara</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Pernambuco" title="Pernambuco">Pernambuco</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Xukuru_people" title="Xukuru people">Xukuru</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Central-West_Region480" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Indigenous peoples of the <a href="/wiki/Central-West_Region,_Brazil" title="Central-West Region, Brazil">Central-West Region</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Goi%C3%A1s" title="Goiás">Goiás</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Av%C3%A1-Canoeiro" class="mw-redirect" title="Avá-Canoeiro">Avá-Canoeiro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karaj%C3%A1" title="Karajá">Karajá</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Mato_Grosso" title="Mato Grosso">Mato Grosso</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aimor%C3%A9_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Aimoré people">Aimoré</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apiac%C3%A1_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Apiacá people">Apiacá</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aweti" title="Aweti">Aweti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bakairi_people" title="Bakairi people">Bakairi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bororo" title="Bororo">Bororo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chiquitano_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Chiquitano people">Chiquitano</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cinta_Larga_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Cinta Larga people">Cinta Larga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enawene_Nawe_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Enawene Nawe people">Enawene Nawe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guat%C3%B3_people" title="Guató people">Guató</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ikpeng_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Ikpeng people">Ikpeng</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kaiabi_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Kaiabi people">Kaiabi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kalapalo_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Kalapalo people">Kalapalo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kamayur%C3%A1_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Kamayurá people">Kamayurá</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karaj%C3%A1" title="Karajá">Karajá</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kayapo" title="Kayapo">Kayapo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kuikuro_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Kuikuro people">Kuikuro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matipu_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Matipu people">Matipu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Munduruku_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Munduruku people">Munduruku</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nahuku%C3%A1" title="Nahukuá">Nahukuá</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nambikwara_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Nambikwara people">Nambikwara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paiter_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Paiter people">Paiter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Panar%C3%A1_people" title="Panará people">Panará</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paresi_language" title="Paresi language">Paresi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rikbaktsa_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Rikbaktsa people">Rikbaktsa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suy%C3%A1_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Suyá people">Kĩsêdjê (Suyá)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tapay%C3%BAna_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Tapayúna people">Tapayúna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tapirap%C3%A9_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Tapirapé people">Tapirapé</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Terena_people" title="Terena people">Terena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trumai_people" title="Trumai people">Trumai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Umutina" title="Umutina">Umutina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wauja_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Wauja people">Wauja</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xavante_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Xavante people">Xavante</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yawalapiti" title="Yawalapiti">Yawalapiti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yudj%C3%A1" title="Yudjá">Yudjá</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zor%C3%B3" title="Zoró">Zoró</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Mato_Grosso_do_Sul" title="Mato Grosso do Sul">Mato Grosso do Sul</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chamacoco" title="Chamacoco">Chamacoco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guarani-Kaiow%C3%A1" title="Guarani-Kaiowá">Guarani-Kaiowá</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guat%C3%B3_people" title="Guató people">Guató</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kadiweu_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Kadiweu people">Kadiweu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mbay%C3%A1_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Mbayá people">Mbayá</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ofay%C3%A9_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Ofayé people">Ofayé</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Terena_people" title="Terena people">Terena</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Indigenous_peoples_of_the_South_and_Southeast_Regions480" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Indigenous peoples of the <a href="/wiki/South_Region,_Brazil" title="South Region, Brazil">South</a> and <a href="/wiki/Southeast_Region,_Brazil" title="Southeast Region, Brazil">Southeast Regions</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Esp%C3%ADrito_Santo" title="Espírito Santo">Espírito Santo</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tupiniquim_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Tupiniquim people">Tupiniquim</a></li></ul> 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