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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