The literature regarding the Apiaká is limited. The Master’s Degree thesis by Eugênio Wenzel, “Em torno da panela Apiaká” (Around the Apiaká Cooking Pot), provides historical and bibliographical data, in addition to information regarding their life in the Apiaká/Kayabí Indigenous Land in Juara, State of Mato Grosso, in the 1980s.

A visit of a group of Apiaká to Cuiabá in 1818 resulted in one of the first reports about them, the "Memoria sobre os uzos, costumes e linguagem dos Appiacá" (Memory about the uses, ways and language of the Apiaká), written by José da Silva Guimarães.

A few years later, Hercules Florence, who took part in the expedition led by Baron Langsdorf, registered, both in writing and with drawings, in “Viagem Fluvial do Tietê ao Amazonas” (River Voyage from the Tietê to the Amazon), his impressions on the Apiaká he ran into while traveling the Arinos and Juruena rivers, on the route Cuiabá-Santarém.

It is interesting to consult Georg Grünberg work "Beiträge zur Ethnographie der Kayabi Zentralbrasiliens"; although the Apiaká are not the main focus in it, there are valuable information on their history and their relations with the Kayabí.

In addition to those titles, it is recommended a look on the reports and conferences made by Marshall Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon regarding the period between 1910 and 1922, which, among other information, discusses the tragic consequences of massacres inflicted upon the Apiaká in the most intense period of rubber exploration in the region.