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The indigenous people of Brazil are povos indigenas(or portuguese) when the europeans came in 1500 the idigenous people lived there lifes as plainly as they could. they lived by hunting, fishing, gathering, and migrant agriculture.

unfortunatly an estamated 2,000 nations and tribes wich existed in 1500 died out because of the ruthless europeans. and now olny about 0.4% of the brazilian population are the indigenous people. Luckly on january 18, 2007 it was reported that it had confirmed that 67 different uncontacted tribes existed. Aparrently its GONE UP from 40 in 2005. In the last IBGE (Instituto Brasilerio de Geografia e Estatistica) censes in 2006 519,000 classified themselves as indigenous.

Some of these tribes are the Kayapo, Yanomami,Baniwa,Baras,Chiquitanos, Denis...to see more click here [[[image:http://www.cruise-connections.com/images/maps/brazil.jpg width="254" height="224" caption="external image"] "still looking for gods, if you have info please contact me Zac_Lecerf@wikispace.com"

Indigenous Nations' Games in Olinda, are very important to the brazilian people for its one of the only times of the year where the tribes will gather for entertainment.