Cinta Larga
The Cinta Larga , also Cinturão Largo , Cinta-Larga , plural Cintas Largas , are an indigenous people in the Amazon region . They live in the northeast of Mato Grosso and in Rondônia . The numerically small ethnic group (2014: 1954) speaks a Tupí dialect , the Tupí Mondé .
The name comes from Portuguese and means something like "wide belt". The reason for this name are the large sashes that the tribal members traditionally wore.
The people achieved fame through the Roosevelt-Rondon Expedition , which led through the traditional tribal area of the Cinta Larga. Although there was never any contact between the ethnic group and Rondon's expedition, the tribe shadowed the expedition along the Rio Roosevelt and thus meant a constant danger for the already badly affected crew.
Between the 1920s and 1960s, the people suffered particularly from the rubber boom , which led to many attacks. The best-known incident is the " 11th parallel massacre " in 1963 in the headwaters of the Aripuanã River . The chairman of the Arruda, Junqueir & Co. company, Antonio Mascarenhas Junqueira, planned the massacre because he found the indigenous peoples to be disruptive in harvesting the rubber in the area. The assassins threw explosives from a small plane into the village of the Cinta Larga, and later they came on foot to kill others. In total there were thirty dead. In 1975 a perpetrator was sentenced to ten years in prison, but pardoned again after a year, although he showed no remorse.
In 2004 the tribe was blamed for the killing of 29 diamond seekers who were digging for diamonds in the tribal area without permission . The Brazilian government approved a grant of $ 810,000 in exchange for a promise that the Cinta Larga would stop killing and mining. The production expired in 2007, the tribe has announced the reopening of the diamond mine.
literature
- João Dal Poz Neto: Dádivas e dívidas na Amazônia: parentesco, economia e ritual nos Cinta-Larga. UNICAMP, Campinas 2004. (Diss.)
- Wolf-Jesco von Puttkamer: Brazil protects her Cinta Largas. In: National Geographic Magazine . Washington, D. C, Vol. 140, 1971, No. 3, pp. 420-444 (multiple maps and numerous illustrations).
Web links
- Cinta larga - Povos Indígenas no Brasil. In: pib.socioambiental.org. Instituto Socioambiental
- Literature about the Cinta Larga in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute in Berlin
Individual evidence
- ↑ Quadro Geral dos Povos - Povos Indígenas no Brasil. In: socioambiental.org. pib.socioambiental.org, accessed April 25, 2020 .
- ↑ Ulisses Capozzoli: Cintas-largas, garimpeiros eo Massacre do Paralelo 11. In: com.br. April 20, 2004, accessed April 26, 2020 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ↑ Why are indigenous peoples hiding? . Retrieved August 13, 2013.
- ↑ Eduardo Rodriguez: Main report: Uncontacted tribes: by choice or by chance? : Center for a Better Life. In: centerforabetterlife.com. web.archive.org, 2011, archived from the original on September 21, 2011 ; accessed on April 25, 2020 .
- ↑ Larry Rohter: Diamonds' Glitter Fades for a Brazilian Tribe . In: The New York Times . December 29, 2006, ISSN 0362-4331 (American English, nytimes.com ).