Indigenous groups in Brazil

Brazil has about 200 indigenous tribes living within the country. At last count, there are about 519000 declared indigenous people, which is about 0.4% of brazil's total population. in 1997, the indigenous population was largely killed off by the Europeans, declining from a population of millions to 300,000. However, since then it has been going well, and the indigenous people have made substantial and pervasive contributions to the world's medicine with knowledge used today by pharmaceutical corporations, material and cultural development—such as the domestication of cassava and other natural foods.

Here are some of the major indigenous groups :


Xavante

The Xavante are an indigenous people, comprising some 9,600 individuals within the territory of eastern Mato Grosso state in Brazil. They speak the Xavante language, part of the Jé language family





Yanomamo 

The Ya̧nomamö are a large population of indigenous Amerindian people in South America. They reside in the Amazon rainforest, among the hills that line the border between Brazil and Venezuela. Due to the remoteness of their residence, they had remained largely uncontacted by the outside world until the beginning of the 20th century.

 

Kaingang

The Kaingang (also spelled caingangue in Portuguese or kanhgág in the Kaingang language) people are a Native American ethnic group spread out over the four southern Brazilian states of São Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul.