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The Indigenous peoples in Brazil (Portuguese: povos indígenas no Brasil) comprise a large number of distinct ethnic groups, who have inhabited the country prior to the European. The word índios ("Indians"), was by then established to designate the people of the Americas and is still used today in the Portuguese language to designate these ...
The Portuguese arrived at the end of a long pre-colonial conflict between the Tupis and Tapuias, which had led to the defeat and expulsion of the Tapuias from most coastal areas. Although the coastal Tupi were divided into sub-tribes that were frequently hostile to each other, they were culturally and linguistically homogeneous.
Kayapo children wear cloth or beaded bands with colors representing their tribes. Typically these bands are tied below the waist or crisscrossed around the torso. When a child comes of age, they go through a naming ceremony in which they wear large yellow headdresses. Kayapo women can be distinguished by the V shape shaved into their hair. [13]
Portuguese Uruguayans are mainly of Azorean descent. [336] Portuguese presence in the country dates to colonial times, in particular to the establishment of Colonia del Sacramento by the Portuguese in 1680, [337] which eventually turned into a regional smuggling center. Other Portuguese entered Uruguay from Brazil. During the second half of the ...
The genus name means "lizard born from fire" from Tupi ara "born" and atá "fire," and Greek saurus "lizard". The name refers to the National Museum of Brazil fire, which the holotype survived unscathed. The species name also is the Portuguese name of the museum. [23] Aratinga: parakeet: Tupi: Ará tinga means "bright bird" or "bright parrot". [24]
The name of Portugal itself reveals much of the country's early history, stemming from the Roman name Portus Cale, a Latin name meaning "Port of Cale" (Cale likely is a word of Celtic origin - Cailleach-Bheur her other name; the Mother goddess of the Celtic people as in Calais, Caledonia, Beira.
The name Pirahã is an exonym; the Pirahã call themselves the Híaitíihi or Hiáitihí, [3] roughly translated as "the straight ones". [4] The Pirahã speak the Pirahã language. They call any other language "crooked head". [5] Members of the Pirahã can whistle their language, which is how Pirahã men communicate when hunting in the jungle.
Gaucho from Argentina, photographed in Peru, 1868. A gaucho (Spanish:) or gaúcho (Portuguese:) is a skilled horseman, reputed to be brave and unruly.The figure of the gaucho is a folk symbol of Argentina, Paraguay, [1] Uruguay, Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil, the southern part of Bolivia, [2] and the south of Chilean Patagonia. [3]