Xingu (people)
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The Xingu Indians is a group of 16 Indian trunks with four different languages, which live at the upper run of the Río Xingú in the Brazilian Mato Grosso.
In the centuries since the penetration of the Europeans they had fled from different regions on the escape before settlers into the region at the upper run of the Río Xingú. End 19. Century lived about 3,000 the native here at the Alto Xingu, whose currentfast them protected against European intruders. Up to the center 20. Century this number had been dezimiert by different brought in epidemic diseases such asflu , masers and malaria on under 1.000.
Two Brazilians, Orlando Villas Bôas and its brother, claimant here from 1946 to 1973 an administrative and a commercial post and contributed substantially to the fact that in the year 1961 at the Alto Xingu of the Parque Indígena DO Xingu one furnished, in order to offer to the remaining ethnical minorities a shelter. This has to it contributed that the number of the Xingu here living in 32 settlements rose to today again over 3000 inhabitants, half of them younger than 15 years.
The Xingu living in this region has completely similar habits, habits and social systems despite different languages. They consist in detail of the following Indian peoples: the Aweti, Kalapalo, Kamaiurá, Kuikuro, Matipu, Mehinako, Nahukuá, Trumai, Waura and Yawalapiti.
