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The Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous History and Culture Law (Law No. 11.645/2008) mandates the teaching of Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous History and Culture in Brazil. The law was enacted on 10 March 2008, amending Law No. 9.394 of 20 December 1996, as modified by Law No. 10.639 of 9 January 2003.
A few tribes were assimilated into the Brazilian population. In 2007, FUNAI reported that it had confirmed the presence of 67 different uncontacted tribes in Brazil, an increase from 40 in 2005. With this addition Brazil has now surpassed New Guinea as the country having the largest number of uncontacted peoples.
According to Survival International, Brazilian company Yaguarete Porá S.A. is converting thousands of hectares of the Ayoreo-Totobiegosode tribe's ancestral territory into cattle ranching land. [43] The Union of Ayoreo Natives of Paraguay is working for their protection, with support from the Iniciativa Amotocodie .
According to FUNAI the school is the responsibility of the Ministry of Education of Brazil. [10] In addition to a formal school being introduced to the culture, the documentary also reported that the Brazilian government installed a modern medical clinic, electricity and television in the remote area.
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The Indians of the Xingu: Cultural Homogenization in the Amazon Rainforest; A Report on the Xingu Peoples and the Land; A Xingu case study, the Rainforest Action Network; Xingu, on Povos indigenous no Brasil; Sounds from Xingu: Indigenous Ethnographers in Brazil, Baltic + George Catlin, Four Xingu Indians, 1854/1869, National Gallery of Art
At the time of the discovery of Brazil by the Europeans, a total of 2,000 Indigenous nations, divided into several thousand tribes, existed in Brazil. The total number of Native tribes which inhabited present day Brazil at the time of first contact is disputed and difficult to ascertain. The names of large number of tribes who were exterminated ...
The Encyclopedia of Indigenous Peoples in Brazil is a specialized encyclopedia about the indigenous peoples in Brazil, published online since 1998 by the Instituto Socioambiental (ISA). It presents over 200 articles with ethnographic information about indigenous peoples in Brazil, as well as analyses, news and other indigenous-related material.