Waiwai

The Waiwai (also Wai-Wai , Portuguese: Uaiuais ) are an isolated indigenous people in Brazil .

The Waiwai, originally located on the border between Guyana and Brazil, still number around 2,900 people today.

Due to conflicts with Latin American settlers, they immigrated deeper into Brazil in the 1970s and settled in a remote rainforest region on the Rio Xingu .

Most of the Waiwai were Christianized in the 1980s , they have kept their Caribbean language Waiwai ( ISO 639-3 waw ) to this day .

In 2004, the Government of Guyana presented an area of over 4,000 square kilometers under conservation , where the Waiwai live, and at the same time thus created the world's largest reserve in the common property .

literature

Homer E. Dowdy: Magic Basket and Ghost Stones. Wuppertal: Brockhaus, 1979, ISBN 3-417-20272-8 (Describes the recent history of the Waiwai)
Alfred Heinicke: The Wai-Wai on the Amazon River . With 7 recordings by the author. In: Reclams Universum 44.2 (1928), pp. 1115-1118.

Web links

Waiwai on the website Povos Indígenas no Brasil of the Instituto Socioambiental (Portuguese, English)

Individual evidence

↑ The Christian ethnology site Joshuaprojekt on the Internet recently lists 2,900 people for the Wai-Wai or Waiwai under peoples in Brazil.
↑ Waiwai on Ethnologue . Retrieved August 20, 2014.
↑ Biodiversity in the Konashen Community-Owned Conservation Area, Guyana (PDF) Archived from the original on December 6, 2010. Retrieved January 25, 2018.

[1] The Christian ethnology site Joshuaprojekt on the Internet recently lists 2,900 people for the Wai-Wai or Waiwai under peoples in Brazil.

[2] Waiwai on Ethnologue . Retrieved August 20, 2014.

[3] Biodiversity in the Konashen Community-Owned Conservation Area, Guyana (PDF) Archived from the original on December 6, 2010. Retrieved January 25, 2018.