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KRENÁK   
photo: Márcio Ferreira, 1989
 
Other name:
Borun

Where they are:
States of Minas Gerais and São Paulo

How many people:
150 (in 1997)

Language:
Borun, of the Macro-Jê branch

Victims of several massacres – declared “Just Wars” by the Portuguese Colonial government –, the Krenak are the last remnants of the Botocudo do Leste (Eastern Botocudo). Today they live in a very small area, which they were able to recover with great difficulty.
Maria Hilda Baqueiro Paraiso
Universidade Federal da Bahia
paraiso@astech.com.br
December 1998
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