Xingu people groups are indigenous people groups of Brazil living close to the Xingu River. They have numerous social similitudes notwithstanding their distinctive ethnologies. Xingu individuals speak to fifteen tribes and every one of the four of Brazil's indigenous dialect bunches, however they have comparative conviction frameworks, customs and services.
Precolumbian history
The Upper Xingu district was vigorously populated before European and African contact. Thickly populated settlements created from 1200 to 1600 CE. [1] Ancient streets and scaffolds connected groups were regularly encompassed by trench or channels. The towns were pre-arranged and included round courts. Archeologists have uncovered 19 towns as such.
Post-contact history
Kuikuro oral history says European slavers landed in the Xingu area around 1750. Xinuguano populace was evaluated in the many thousands however was significantly lessened by ailments and bondage by Europeans. [2] In the hundreds of years since the entrance of the Europeans into South America, the Xingu fled from various districts to escape modernization and social digestion. In any case pioneers made it up similarly as the upper keep running of the Rio Xingu. Before the end of the nineteenth century, around 3,000 locals inhabited the Alto Xingu, where their current political status has kept them secured against European interlopers. By the mid twentieth century this number had been lessened by outside scourge infections, for example, influenza, measles, smallpox and jungle fever to under 1,000. Just an expected 500 Xingu people groups were alive in the 1950s.
The Brazilian Villas-Bôas siblings went by the territory starting in 1946, and pushed for the production of the Parque IndÃgena do Xingu, in the long run set up in 1961. Their story is told in a film, Xingu. The quantity of Xingu living there in 32 settlements has risen again to more than 3000 occupants, half of them more youthful than 15 years.
The Xingu living in this area have comparable propensities and social frameworks, in spite of various dialects. In particular, they comprise of the accompanying people groups: the Aweti, Kalapalo, Kamaiurá, Kayapó, Kuikuro, Matipu, Mehinako, Nahukuá, Suyá, Trumai, Wauja and Yawalapiti.
Brazil indigenous dance
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Xingu people groups are indigenous people groups of Brazil living close to the Xingu River. They have numerous socia...
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