The Kayapo (Portuguese: Caiapó) people are an indigenous people in Brazil, living over a vast area across the states of Pará and Mato Grosso, south of the Amazon River and along the Xingu River and its tributaries.

2022年3月29日 · For decades, the Kayapó of Brazil have fought to protect their territory from successive waves of loggers, miners, farmers, and land grabbers. Now, with a recently paved highway and a planned railway closing in on their lands, the Kayapó’s struggle is far from over. By Jill Langlois • March 29, 2022.

The Kayapo Project is an Indigenous-led NGO alliance ensuring Mebêngôkre-Kayapo (Kayapo) cultural, economic, political, and territorial autonomy over more than nine million hectares of federally demarcated Indigenous lands located in the highly threatened southeastern Amazon.

Kayapo women are renowned for their fearless leadership and unwavering commitment to defending the political interests of their community. They stand as outspoken advocates, boldly championing causes vital to their people’s well-being and rights.

The Kayapo Indians are one of the main Amerindian (native) groups that remain in the rain forest around the Amazon River in Brazil. The Kayapos resisted assimilation (absorption into the dominant culture) and were known traditionally as fierce warriors. They raided enemy tribes and sometimes fought among themselves.

Kayapo sometimes raise infant monkeys and other stranded o spring of animals they hunt. The Amazon tribe has beaten back ranchers and gold miners and famously stopped a dam. Now its leaders...

The Kayapó live in villages dispersed along the upper course of the Iriri, Bacajá and Fresco rivers, as well as affluents of the voluminous Xingu river, outlining a territory almost as large as Austria in Central Brazil and almost entirely covered in equatorial rainforest, with the exception of the eastern section, filled by some areas of scrubl...

2008年7月9日 · The Kayapo are a powerful and well-known Brazilian tribe who inhabit a vast area of the Amazon across the Central Brazilian Plateau. In 2003 the Kayapo population stood at an estimated 7,096.

Kayapo's territory is a sanctuary for biodiversity, harboring many threatened species. The guard post program plays a crucial role in safeguarding the indigenous territory of the Kayapo people.

Kayapo lands are located in the midst of one of the world’s highest deforestation regions — an agricultural frontier with an expanding road network and little if law enforcement. Kayapo have fiercely protected their vast territory but face increased pressure from illegal incursions for goldmining, logging, commercial fishing, and ranching.