NEW Isolated Amazon Tribe: Xingu Indians Of The Amazon Rainforest Brazil 2016 (Documentary)
Watch new up close footage of the isolated
Amazon Tribe,
Xingu! This up close and personal documentary will show you exciting culture, dance, food, wrestling and more with the isolated tribe along the
Xingu River.
Ceremonies
Names: Yamurikuma /
Quarup / and many more.
The Amazon Rainforest, also known in
English as
Amazonia or the
Amazon Jungle, habitat to approximately one-third of all animal species in the world and isolated/uncontacted tribes such as the Xingu
Peoples.
2016 Xingu Peoples: Tribe
Information
Xingu peoples are indigenous peoples of
Brazil living near the Xingu River. They have many cultural similarities despite their different ethnologies. Xingu people represent fifteen tribes and all four of Brazil's indigenous language groups, but they share similar belief systems, rituals and ceremonies.
Precolumbian History
The
Upper Xingu region was heavily populated prior to
European and African contact.
Densely populated settlements developed from 1200 to 1600 CE.
Ancient roads and bridges linked communities were often surrounded by ditches or moats. The villages were pre-planned and featured circular plazas. Archaeologists have unearthed 19 villages so far.
Post contact history
Kuikuro oral history says European slavers arrived in the Xingu region around 1750. Xinuguano population was estimated in the tens of thousands but was dramatically reduced by diseases and slavery by
Europeans. In the centuries since the penetration of the Europeans into
South America, the Xingu fled from different regions to escape modernization and cultural assimilation. Nonetheless settlers made it up as far as the upper run of the
Rio Xingu. By the end of the
19th century, about 3,
000 natives lived at the
Alto Xingu, where their current political status has kept them protected against European intruders. By the mid twentieth century this number had been reduced by foreign epidemic diseases such as flu, measles, smallpox and malaria to less than 1,000. Only an estimated
500 Xingu peoples were alive in the
1950s.
The Brazilian Villas-Bôas brothers visited the area beginning in 1946, and pushed for
the creation of the Parque Indígena do Xingu, eventually established in
1961. Their story is told in a film, Xingu. The number of Xingu living there in 32 settlements has risen again to over
3000 inhabitants, half of them younger than 15 years.
The Xingu living in this region have similar habits and social systems, despite different languages. Specifically, they consist of the following peoples: the
Aweti,
Kalapalo, Kamaiurá,
Kayapó, Kuikuro,
Matipu,
Mehinako,
Nahukuá,
Suyá,
Trumai,
Wauja and
Yawalapiti.
Xingu River
Description:
The Xingu River (
Portuguese: Rio Xingu) is a 1,640 km (1,019 mi) river in north Brazil. It is a southeast tributary of the
Amazon River.
The first
Indian Park in Brazil was created in the river basin by the
Brazilian government in the early
1960s. This park marks the first indigenous territory recognized by the Brazilian government and it was the world's largest indigenous reserve on the date of its creation.
Currently, fourteen tribes live on the reserve surviving with natural resources and extracting from the river most of what they need for food and water.
The Brazilian government is building the
Belo Monte Dam, which will be the world's third-largest hydroelectric dam, on the Lower Xingu. Construction of this dam is under legal challenge by environment and indigenous groups, who assert the dam would have negative environmental and social impacts along with reducing the flow by up to 80% along a
100 kilometres (62 mi) stretch known as the "
Big Bend" (
Volta Grande).
More than 450 fish species have been documented in the Xingu River
Basin and it is estimated that the total is around 600 fish species, including many endemics. In the last 5 years alone, 21 new fish species have been described from the river. Many species are seriously threatened by the dam, including at least 26 fish species that are entirely restricted to the lower Xingu.
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Translations:
Japanese: アマゾン, アマゾン河, アマゾンの熱帯雨林
Russian: Тропический лес Амазонки Амазонка река амазонка
Spanish: río
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