See also: Xingu

The people Xingu are a group of 16 Indian tribes speaking four different languages, which live it on higher course of the Río Xingú in the Brazilian federal state of the Mato Grosso.

During centuries since the penetration in South America by the European S, they have flees the various areas where they were established to escape modernization and the cultural dissassimilation, although colonists managed to be established until the jiveau higher course of Río Xingú. At the end of the 19th century there was approximately: 3000 Indians on the level of the haut-Xingu, whose current political statute protects them from the European invaders. Until the middle of the 20th century, they were decimated by various foreign diseases such as the Grippe, Rougeole, the Petite variola and the Malaria. Maintaining their number turns around a thousand.

Two Brazilian, Orlando Villas Boas and his/her brother, protests that of 1946 to 1973, thanks to an administrative and commercial office, they contributed in a substantial way to the good being of Xingus. During the year 1961, in the Xingu Viola in the National park of Xingu , they managed to offer a shelter to the remaining ethnic minorities. One must admit that the number of the Xingu Indians divided in 32 campings increased again, to reach more: 3000 inhabitants now, of which the half of them has less than 15 years.

Alive Xingus in this area have completely similar habits and suystèmes social, although having different languages. They belong to the following tribes:

• the Aweti,
• the Kalapalo,
• the Kamaiurá,
• the Kuikuro,
• the Matipu,
• the Mehinako,
• the Nahukuá,
• the Trumai,
• the Waura,
• the Yawalapiti.