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GUAJÁ   
Uritxí and Amiritxiá Awá, AI Carú, Maranhão
foto: Michel Pellanders, 1996
 
Other names:
Awá (self designation), Wazaizara (Tenetehara), Aiayé (Amanayé), Gwazá

Where they live:
Maranhão state, Brazil

How many people:
230 in contact; approximately 30 with no contact or intermittent contact

Language:
of Tupi-Guarani family
 

The Guajá reside in Brazil's pre-Amazon region and are one of the last groups of hunter-gatherers of Brazil, and the world. In addition to those Guajá who were contacted and settled by Brazil's Indian Service (FUNAI), an unknown number are still uncontacted and live in the adjacent forested areas of this region.
Louis Carlos Forline
Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
forline@museu-goeldi.br
May 2002
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