The Guajajara are an indigenous people in the Brazilian state of Maranhão. They are one of the most numerous indigenous groups in Brazil, with an estimated 13,100 individuals living on indigenous land. [1] In 1901, the Guajajara fought Capuchin missionaries in what is regarded as the last Brazilian "war against the Indians."

The Guajajara are one of Brazil's most numerous indigenous peoples. They live in 11 Indigenous Lands at the eastern margin of the Amazon region, all of them located in Maranhão State. Their history of more than 380 years of contacts is marked by both approaches to whites and total refusals, submissions, revolts, and great tragedies.

Os Guajajara são um dos povos indígenas mais numerosos do Brasil. Habitam mais de 10 Terras Indígenas na margem oriental da Amazônia, todas situadas no Maranhão. Sua história de mais de 380 anos de contato foi marcada tanto por aproximações com os brancos como por recusas totais, submissões, revoltas e grandes tragédias.

Os guajajaras, também conhecidos como tenetearas, [2] são um dos povos indígenas mais numerosos atualmente no Brasil. Habitam onze terras indígenas situadas no estado do Maranhão. Em 2010, sua população era de 23 949 pessoas. [3] . A língua falada por eles é o teneteara, da família linguística tupi.

2019年11月8日 · Between 2000 and 2018, 42 Guajajara Indigenous People were murdered. And this year has been a particularly violent one in Brazil as a whole. According to preliminary data published by the Indigenist Missionary Council (Cimi), in the first nine months of 2019, there were 160 cases of invasion of 153 Indigenous Lands in 19 states.

Conheça a história dos Guajajara por meio dos documentários e depoimentos desenvolvidos por seus representantes! Os Guajajara são um dos povos indígenas mais numerosos do Brasil e habitam mais de 10 Terras Indígenas (TIs) na margem oriental da Amazônia, todas situadas no centro do Maranhão, nas regiões dos rios Pindaré, Grajaú, Mearim e Zutiua.

2021年9月1日 · Someone has been killing the Guajajara Guardians of the Forest and other Indigenous defenders of the Amazon who protect against illegal land grabbers, loggers, and miners. Many Guajajara...

2020年9月9日 · More specifically, the case of the Guajajara is an example of biocolonialism, a trend in western bioscience in which indigenous knowledge of biological resources (like medicinal plants) as well as indigenous biological material (genetic material) is extracted and patented by Western scientific, medical, and pharmaceutical institutions without ...

ETHNONYMS: Guazazara, Tenetehar, Tenetehára. The 7,000 to 10,000 Guajajára speak a language belonging to the Tupí Family and live between the Pindaré and Mearim rivers in the Brazilian state of Maranhão. In 1830 they numbered in excess of 12,000 people and lived in Pará as well as Maranhão.

The Guajaj á ra traditionally practiced fairly intensive horticulture, raising bitter and sweet manioc, maize, squashes, cotton, peanuts, and beans; later they adopted bananas and rice, which they grow in large quantities. Gardens are cleared from July through November, burned in late November, and planted in December.