Akuntsu
The Akuntsu , also Akunsu, Akonsu, Akunt'su , are an Indian people who in 2016 only consisted of four people who live with the only three survivors of the Kanoê people in Omere in the southwest of the state of Rondônia , Brazil . "Akuntsu" means "The other Indians" in the language of the neighboring people of the Kanoé (Portuguese outro índio ).
The Akuntsu are hunters and live in communal houses made of straw, the malocas . They also grow cassava and maize in their gardens , collect forest fruits and catch fish. The Akuntsu make wooden flutes which they use for dances and rituals .
The final decimation of the tribe goes back to massacres, which occurred especially in the 1970s and 1980s and were perpetrated by cattle ranchers on the people of the Akuntsu and Kanoê. Although the last survivors of the Akuntsu were given a small reservation by the Brazilian Indian protection organization FUNAI , in the area of which they can live their traditions unhindered, they still have great problems with cattle breeders who illegally claim their area for themselves and thus seriously endanger their existence. Because of this, the Akuntsu are very suspicious of strangers.
See also
Web links
- Etnia de seis indígenas perde anciã on the FUNAI (Fundação Nacional do Índio) website of October 23, 2009. (Retrieved April 26, 2014, Brazilian Portuguese).
- Survival International - human rights organization for the protection of indigenous peoples
- Adelino de Lucena Mendes: Akuntsu - Povos Indígenas no Brasil. In: socioambiental.org. Instituto Socioambiental (ISA) (Brazilian Portuguese).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Survival International: Leader and last ever shaman of tiny Amazon tribe dies in Brazil. In: http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/11304 . Retrieved March 22, 2017 (English).
- ^ Adelino de Lucena Mendes: Akuntsu - Povos Indígenas no Brasil. In: socioambiental.org. Instituto Socioambiental (ISA), accessed February 26, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).