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    occupied by the Apiacá and Munduruku people. A proposed dam on the Tapajós river is on hold since it would flood part of the territory, and the constitution...
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    of the Coatá-Laranjal Indigenous Land. They had an estimated population in 2014 of 13,755. Traditionally the Munduruku's territory, called Mundurukânia...
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  • Muybu Indigenous Territory (Portuguese: Terra Indígena Sawré Muybu), also called the Daje Kapap Eipi, is an indigenous territory of Munduruku people...
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  • The territory is inhabited by the Munduruku people. The estimated population was 529 in 1990, rising to 1,022 by 2000 and to 1,739 by 2013. Indigenous organizations...
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    There are 724 Indigenous territories (Portuguese: Terra Indígena [ˈtɛʁɐ ĩˈdʒiʒẽnɐ], TI) in Brazil, comprising about 13% of the country's land area. According...
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    the Munduruku people in the Amazon rainforest are opposing the building of Tapajós dam with the help of Greenpeace.[citation needed] Most Indigenous populations...
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    Deforestation for mining also affects the daily lives of Indigenous tribes in Brazil. For example, the Munduruku Amerindians have higher levels of mercury poisoning...
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    controversial Chacorão Dam, would flood a large area of the Munduruku Indigenous Territory. The dams are part of a plan to convert the Tapajos into a waterway...
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    Alessandra Korap (Munduruku Village, Pará, 1985) is an indigenous leader and Brazilian environmental activist from the Munduruku ethnic group. Her main...
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    isolados in Acre – Unidentified. List of Indigenous territories (Brazil) "List of indigenous peoples - Indigenous Peoples in Brazil". pib.socioambiental...
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    area lies within Mundurucu Indigenous Territory in the Amazonas state. The name sagui-dos-Munduruku is a tribute to the Munduruku people who lives in the...
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    by the rainforest. This region includes territory belonging to nine nations and 3,344 indigenous territories. The majority of the forest, 60%, is in Brazil...
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    Yanomami (category Indigenous peoples in Brazil)
    members of the Yanomami and Munduruku," in Brazil, "by illegal miners in the Amazon." Gold was found in Yanomami territory in the early 1970s and the resulting...
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    The Indigenous languages of the Americas or American Indian languages are a diverse group of languages that originated in the Americas prior to colonization...
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    Pre-Cabraline history of Brazil (category Indigenous peoples in Brazil)
    at a time when the region that is now Brazilian territory was occupied by thousands of indigenous peoples. Traditional prehistory is generally divided...
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  • Villanueva, Rosa Elisa (2008), Levantamento Etnoecológico MUNDURUKU Terra Indígena Munduruku (PDF), Brasília: FUNAI – Fundação Nacional do Índio / PPTAL...
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  • Kuruaya (category Indigenous peoples in Brazil)
    Currently there are approximately 159 living in their indigenous territory, the Kuruaya Indigenous Area. The Kuruaya are also known as the Caravare, Curuaia...
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    Mura people (category Indigenous peoples in Brazil)
    Formerly a powerful people, they were defeated by their neighbors, the Munduruku, in 1788. Of the original diversity of Muran languages, only Pirahã survives...
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    Brazil Wauja (Waurá, Waura), Mato Grosso, Brazil Wuy jugu (Mundurucu, Munduruku) Yawalapiti (Iaualapiti), Mato Grosso, Brazil This region includes the...
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  • of the local Munduruku people. In its report, FUNAI recommends the demarcation of 1,780 square kilometers (687 square miles) of Munduruku land, the Sawré...
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    and 2,000 square kilometres (770 sq mi) of indigenous territory, mostly occupied by people of the Munduruku ethnic group. The São Luiz do Tapajós Dam would...
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  • Kawahiva (category Indigenous peoples in Brazil)
    believed to be descended from the Tupí. According to James S. Olson,"The Munduruku expansion (in the 18th century) dislocated and displaced the Kawahíb,...
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    dos Campos Amazônicos – ISA. Complexo hidrelétrico inundará território munduruku ... Plano de Manejo da Floresta Nacional do Trairão, p. 12. Ayres et al...
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    Apiacá (category Indigenous peoples in Brazil)
    into other indigenous groups. In fact, during this entire time the tribe was still very much alive, living amongst the Kaiabi and Munduruku peoples but...
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    Villanueva, Rosa Elisa (2008), Levantamento Etnoecológico MUNDURUKU Terra Indígena Munduruku (PDF), Brasília: FUNAI – Fundação Nacional do Índio / PPTAL...
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    Mundurucu Indigenous Territory, established in 2004. The municipality also contains part of the 178,173 hectares (440,280 acres) Sawré Muybu Indigenous Territory...
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    contains part of the 178,173 hectares (440,280 acres) Sawré Muybu Indigenous Territory, recognized by Funai in April 2016. List of municipalities in Pará...
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  • Afonso arrived in São Vicente, he met a group of Portuguese, Spanish and Indigenous convicts, led by the Portuguese João Ramalho. The figure of João Ramalho...
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  • Pará, in the Tapajós river basin. It would adjoin the Sawré Muybu Indigenous Territory, which lies between the Jamanxim and the Tapajós in the region above...
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  • affect the Munduruku, Kayabí and Apiacá indigenous people. It would flood 18,700 hectares (46,000 acres) of the Mundurucu Indigenous Territory. The dam...
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