Pataxó

Two Pataxó Indians at a demonstration in Brasília , 2006
(Photo: Valter Campanato / ABr.)

The Pataxó , also Patashó, Patachó , are an indigenous people in Brazil . They were the first "Indians" who had contact with the Portuguese conquerors. Today a large part of the Pataxó lives in the Indian reservation, officially Portuguese Terra Indígena Barra Velha do Monte Pascoal , of the Monte Pascoal National Park near Porto Seguro in the state of Bahia .

distribution

There are a total of 36 forest villages (aldeias) in seven reserves in the southernmost part of Bahia, as well as another seven communities in the northern part of Minas Gerais . The number was given in 2010 by the Brazilian statistical institute IBGE as 13,588 people, that of Pataxó Hã-Hã-Hãe in the same year by FUNASA as 2,375.

They live from agriculture and from the sale of their typical jewelry ( feather jewelry ).

About language

The Pataxó language ( Pataxó Hã-Hã-Hãe ) belongs to the Macro-Ge languages , was still spoken by some tribal members in 1938 and has since been largely lost. In 2012, the IBGE stated the number of speakers as 836, in 2010 as 772 between 5 and 50 years. Curt Nimuendajú , who had visited the tribe in 1938, also stated a language relationship with the Maxakalí . Today, the mother tongue of all Pataxó is Portuguese .

Pataxó is an endonym .

literature

• José Augusto Laranjeiras Sampaio: Breve História da Presença Indígena no Extremo Sul Baiano ea Questão do Território Pataxó de Monte Pascoal. In: Marco Antônio do Espírito Santo: Política indigenista: leste e nordeste brasileiros. Ministério da Justiça, Funai, Brasília 2000.

Web links

Commons : Pataxó  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature about the Pataxó in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute in Berlin
• Instituto Socioambiental: Povos indígenas no Brasil: Pataxó. (Portuguese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Instituto Socioambiental: POVOS indígenas no Brasil: Pataxó. Localização. [accessed August 15, 2016 (Portuguese)].
2. ↑ Instituto Socioambiental: POVOS indígenas no Brasil: Quadro geral. [accessed August 15, 2016 (Portuguese)].
3. ↑ Instituto Socioambiental : POVOS indígenas no Brasil: Pataxó. Língua e situação sociolinguística. [accessed August 15, 2016 (Brazilian Portuguese)].
4. ↑ Curt Nimuendajú: Índios Macharí. In: Revista de Antropologia , São Paulo, Volume 6, 1958, No. 1, pp. 53–61, here p. 54. [accessed on August 15, 2016 (Brazilian Portuguese)].
5. ^ Povos indigenas no Brasil. Pataxó Hã-Hã-Hãe . Retrieved June 11, 2014.