Indigenous peoples in Brazil Helga design

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 Please respect copyrights