When the Portuguese
discoverers first arrived
in Brazil in April 1500,
they found, to their
astonishment, a widely
inhabited coastline,
teeming with hundreds of
thousands of indigenous
people living in a
\"paradise\"
of natural riches

At the time of European
discovery, the territory
of current day Brazil
had as many as 2,000
nations and tribes. The
indigenous peoples
were traditionally
mostly semi-nomadic
tribes who subsisted on
hunting, fishing,
gathering, and migrant
agriculture

On 18 January 2007,
FUNAI census reported
that it had confirmed the
presence of 67 different
uncontacted tribes in Brazil,
up from 40 in 2005.
With this addition Brazil
has now overtaken the
island of New Guinea as
the country having the
largest number of
uncontacted peoples

Music :
Brazilian Anthem
song by birds

The Indigenous peoples in Brazil
(Portuguese: povos indígenas no Brasil)
comprise a large number of distinct ethnic
groups who inhabited the country prior to the
arrival of Europeans around 1500. Unlike
Christopher Columbus, who thought he had
reached the East Indies, the Portuguese, most
notably by Vasco da Gama, had already
reached India via the Indian Ocean route
when they reached Brazil.
Nevertheless the word índios (\"Indians\"),
was by then established to designate the
peoples of the New World and stuck being
used today in the Portuguese language to
designate these peoples, while the people of
India, Asia are called indianos in order to
distinguish the two peoples

Photos by:
Berenice Kauffmann Abud
Brazil and
“They were the unique human
beings I've ever seen, who
understood to live autarkic and
in perfect harmony with their
natural environment ! “
Klaus D. Günter
Germany
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