The kayapo Indians depend on the forest for life.They have great respect for everything in the Amazon rain forest as they need it all to survive even though not all things are good for the kayapo.
Who are the Kayapo?
The kayapo are one of the main Amerindian's tribes native groups that still live in the Amazon rainforest around the river Amazon.The Kayapo are known to be fierce native warriors that fight off other tribes that also stay in the rainforest and surround where they live in their territories. Kayapo call themselves "Mebengokre", mebengokre means "people of the wellspring"
How many Kayapo are there?
There are nine Kayapo villages that are scattered throughout the territory of the Amazon, creating a 28.4 million acres home to over 5 thousand Kayapo people.The total population of the kayapo people is estimated around 8,640 Kayapo people.This calculation is one of the most recent and was estimated in 2010 so by now this figure will have increased throughout the years.
Where do the Kayapo live
When the Portuguese conquerors first arrived in Brazil, there were about five million Amerindians. Today there are only about 200,000 of which a few thousand are Kayapo's. They live along the Xingu River in the eastern part of the Amazon rain forest, in several scattered villages. Their lands consist of tropical rain forest and savanna (grassland). The Amazon basin, which includes the Amazon River and its tributaries such as the Xingu, is sometimes referred to as Amazonia. It includes parts of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
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Who are the Kayapo?
The kayapo are one of the main Amerindian's tribes native groups that still live in the Amazon rainforest around the river Amazon.The Kayapo are known to be fierce native warriors that fight off other tribes that also stay in the rainforest and surround where they live in their territories. Kayapo call themselves "Mebengokre", mebengokre means "people of the wellspring"
How many Kayapo are there?
There are nine Kayapo villages that are scattered throughout the territory of the Amazon, creating a 28.4 million acres home to over 5 thousand Kayapo people.The total population of the kayapo people is estimated around 8,640 Kayapo people.This calculation is one of the most recent and was estimated in 2010 so by now this figure will have increased throughout the years.
Where do the Kayapo live
When the Portuguese conquerors first arrived in Brazil, there were about five million Amerindians. Today there are only about 200,000 of which a few thousand are Kayapo's. They live along the Xingu River in the eastern part of the Amazon rain forest, in several scattered villages. Their lands consist of tropical rain forest and savanna (grassland). The Amazon basin, which includes the Amazon River and its tributaries such as the Xingu, is sometimes referred to as Amazonia. It includes parts of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
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What language do the Kayapo Speak?
The Kayapo language is called simply Kayapo, but it also has an alternate name Kokraimoro. This language branch belongs to the Ge linguistic family which is a branch of the Macro-Ge trunk. The Kayapo take their language very seriously and they find it as a highly valued social practice. They believe so highly in their language that if others don’t speak their language they do not believe them to speak anything quite as beautiful as them.
What is the Kayapo's Religious Beliefs?
Kayapo is that religion and daily life are one in the same; meaning that religion takes place in all parts of the Kayapo’s life, and it is not separated in any way. They practice a polytheistic religion that still finds importance in shamans and natural symbols around them. Just as many other cultures, the Kayapo have been reached by Catholic missionaries seeking to universalize Christianity. Their original beliefs were fundamentally animism, and now have an influence of Christianity. The core beliefs are still animistic in nature, but contain Christian beliefs as well; these Christian beliefs have neither eliminated nor replaced any of the original traditions of the Kayapo that reflect their animism beliefs, An interesting belief of the Kayapo involves their idea of an afterlife. Unlike many other religions particularly Christianity which believe that the dead go to heaven, purgatory or hell, the Kayapo believe that when one dies, that person goes to a village of the dead (In this village, during the day the dead Kayapo can be found sleeping, and at night they go hunting (Interestingly, while in this village, the young people grow older while the older people become younger
What does the Kayapo's houses look like?
The kayapo's houses look almost like beach sheds.They have thatched typed roofs and are quiet small. The kaypo's houses/shelters are made out of material that they can find in the forest. They kayapo make and build their own houses and groups share the one house.Traditional kayapo houses have cicular typed villages.
The Kayapo language is called simply Kayapo, but it also has an alternate name Kokraimoro. This language branch belongs to the Ge linguistic family which is a branch of the Macro-Ge trunk. The Kayapo take their language very seriously and they find it as a highly valued social practice. They believe so highly in their language that if others don’t speak their language they do not believe them to speak anything quite as beautiful as them.
What is the Kayapo's Religious Beliefs?
Kayapo is that religion and daily life are one in the same; meaning that religion takes place in all parts of the Kayapo’s life, and it is not separated in any way. They practice a polytheistic religion that still finds importance in shamans and natural symbols around them. Just as many other cultures, the Kayapo have been reached by Catholic missionaries seeking to universalize Christianity. Their original beliefs were fundamentally animism, and now have an influence of Christianity. The core beliefs are still animistic in nature, but contain Christian beliefs as well; these Christian beliefs have neither eliminated nor replaced any of the original traditions of the Kayapo that reflect their animism beliefs, An interesting belief of the Kayapo involves their idea of an afterlife. Unlike many other religions particularly Christianity which believe that the dead go to heaven, purgatory or hell, the Kayapo believe that when one dies, that person goes to a village of the dead (In this village, during the day the dead Kayapo can be found sleeping, and at night they go hunting (Interestingly, while in this village, the young people grow older while the older people become younger
What does the Kayapo's houses look like?
The kayapo's houses look almost like beach sheds.They have thatched typed roofs and are quiet small. The kaypo's houses/shelters are made out of material that they can find in the forest. They kayapo make and build their own houses and groups share the one house.Traditional kayapo houses have cicular typed villages.
How do the kayapo use the Rain Forest?
The forest gives them houses, transport, food clothes and medicine. The problem is that rivers are essential to their way of life and gold mining in Brazil is polluting the rivers, therefore, spreading diseases throughout the tribes.
The Kayapo people use shifting cultivation, a type of farming where land is cultivated for a few years, until the people move on then they clean another patch and do it all over again.They get medicine from 650 different plants that they find from plants around their village.Shifting Cultivation is another way how the Kayapo use the rainforest.
The forest gives them houses, transport, food clothes and medicine. The problem is that rivers are essential to their way of life and gold mining in Brazil is polluting the rivers, therefore, spreading diseases throughout the tribes.
The Kayapo people use shifting cultivation, a type of farming where land is cultivated for a few years, until the people move on then they clean another patch and do it all over again.They get medicine from 650 different plants that they find from plants around their village.Shifting Cultivation is another way how the Kayapo use the rainforest.
Kayapo daily lives?
The daily routine of a member of a tribe.
The way they live reflects on what they believe and their traditionally.
The men usually go hunting for around four hours because it is relatively easy to catch pray and the women stay at the tribe's territory and look after the children and collect wood and things to make the territory more like a home.
When they come back they will do normal things like prepare the dinner or help collect resources to use to sit around the fire or make the territory safer. Some tribes have a traditional way to make there dinner they will take away its head, legs etc and they will do a ritual how they prepare the meal or sometimes before they eat it and then they will cook all the parts they want to cook.
What do the Kayapo's wear?
Prior to the contact with the white, neither the man nor the woman ever wore any type of clothes, other than a few accessories such as necklaces, bracelets and earrings. Now today they wear clothes. Women wear cotton dresses, that remind designs created in the sixties´ by stylist Yves Saint Laurent, inspired in Mondrian´s work, and men wear shorts and paint themselves according to their tradition, because painting is the traditional outfit of the Kayapo. Children, since their birth, are also painted and wear glass beads some sort of accessory.Normally details such as blue and yellow feathered head dresses, lip plates, body paint and certain garments. They also might wear more modern clothing brought by Modern life people.
What do the Kayapo eat?
The kayapo mainly only eat what they can find or hunt for in the Amazon rainforest. The occasional time they can trade stuff to and from the market or near by town.Most people in the kayapo tribes tend not to do that because they wan to make as very little contact to the outside world as possible.
The kayapo use there own home made weapons such as bone arrows spears and other weapons to hint animals such as birds,monkeys,rodents and even fish.The kayapo tend to hunt in large groups so if they are hunting a larger animal it will be easier to kill and bring it back to the villages to feed on it.For an easier option for the kayapo tend to be insects. Kayapo children are brought up learning how to hunt insects and then working there way up to larger insects.The kaypo need to be extremely careful to make sure they don't catch any diseases of the animals or insects or eat the wrong ones even though the kayapo are very highly skilled.
Kayapo's traditions and customs?
One of the most important traditions and customs from the kayapo tribes are painting themselves with body paints they are encourages by each other to do this from when they are first born they try and symbolize the animals in the Amazon rainforest by painting similar animal patterns on there bodies.The men also wear lip plates sometimes many women wear them too.The Kayapo tribe have lip plates because large lips are considered beautiful. They are made by the kayapo men , and the wear them as small babies, the tribe member has his or her lip cut and a small clay disk is inserted into there mouth/lip. As he or she grow, the disk will be removed and replaced with a bigger one. The tribe member cannot remove the disk, or the lip will just sag.The kayapo also use the techniques slash and burn and shifting cultivation this can also be classed as a custom.They also sing and dance to celebrate special occasions.
Threats and changes the kayapo are facing?
The Kayapo Indians of Brazil are a relatively threatened indigenous people. Located deep in the rainforests, Brazil the nearly 5,000 inhabitants of the kayapo tribes survive completely off of the resources found in and around the Xingu River. Unfortunately for the Kayapo, they are facing major issues that could potentially wipe out the tribe or force them to change their way of living completely.They are threatened by many things such as gold mines, as the gold mines are eating into there homes and forests by cutting down trees.Such as Oil contamainting there river aswell.
The daily routine of a member of a tribe.
The way they live reflects on what they believe and their traditionally.
The men usually go hunting for around four hours because it is relatively easy to catch pray and the women stay at the tribe's territory and look after the children and collect wood and things to make the territory more like a home.
When they come back they will do normal things like prepare the dinner or help collect resources to use to sit around the fire or make the territory safer. Some tribes have a traditional way to make there dinner they will take away its head, legs etc and they will do a ritual how they prepare the meal or sometimes before they eat it and then they will cook all the parts they want to cook.
What do the Kayapo's wear?
Prior to the contact with the white, neither the man nor the woman ever wore any type of clothes, other than a few accessories such as necklaces, bracelets and earrings. Now today they wear clothes. Women wear cotton dresses, that remind designs created in the sixties´ by stylist Yves Saint Laurent, inspired in Mondrian´s work, and men wear shorts and paint themselves according to their tradition, because painting is the traditional outfit of the Kayapo. Children, since their birth, are also painted and wear glass beads some sort of accessory.Normally details such as blue and yellow feathered head dresses, lip plates, body paint and certain garments. They also might wear more modern clothing brought by Modern life people.
What do the Kayapo eat?
The kayapo mainly only eat what they can find or hunt for in the Amazon rainforest. The occasional time they can trade stuff to and from the market or near by town.Most people in the kayapo tribes tend not to do that because they wan to make as very little contact to the outside world as possible.
The kayapo use there own home made weapons such as bone arrows spears and other weapons to hint animals such as birds,monkeys,rodents and even fish.The kayapo tend to hunt in large groups so if they are hunting a larger animal it will be easier to kill and bring it back to the villages to feed on it.For an easier option for the kayapo tend to be insects. Kayapo children are brought up learning how to hunt insects and then working there way up to larger insects.The kaypo need to be extremely careful to make sure they don't catch any diseases of the animals or insects or eat the wrong ones even though the kayapo are very highly skilled.
Kayapo's traditions and customs?
One of the most important traditions and customs from the kayapo tribes are painting themselves with body paints they are encourages by each other to do this from when they are first born they try and symbolize the animals in the Amazon rainforest by painting similar animal patterns on there bodies.The men also wear lip plates sometimes many women wear them too.The Kayapo tribe have lip plates because large lips are considered beautiful. They are made by the kayapo men , and the wear them as small babies, the tribe member has his or her lip cut and a small clay disk is inserted into there mouth/lip. As he or she grow, the disk will be removed and replaced with a bigger one. The tribe member cannot remove the disk, or the lip will just sag.The kayapo also use the techniques slash and burn and shifting cultivation this can also be classed as a custom.They also sing and dance to celebrate special occasions.
Threats and changes the kayapo are facing?
The Kayapo Indians of Brazil are a relatively threatened indigenous people. Located deep in the rainforests, Brazil the nearly 5,000 inhabitants of the kayapo tribes survive completely off of the resources found in and around the Xingu River. Unfortunately for the Kayapo, they are facing major issues that could potentially wipe out the tribe or force them to change their way of living completely.They are threatened by many things such as gold mines, as the gold mines are eating into there homes and forests by cutting down trees.Such as Oil contamainting there river aswell.