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FULNI-Ô   
Photo: Jorge Hernández Díaz, 1983
 
Other names:
Kanijó

Where they live:
State of Pernambuco

How many people:
2.930 (in 1999)

Language:
Ia-Tê or Yatê, of the Macro-Jê branch

The Fulni-ô is the only indigenous group of Northeastern Brazil that was able to keep its language – the Ia-tê – alive and active, as well as the ritual they call Ouricuri, which is currently performed in total secrecy.

In the central part of the Indian Reservation is the city of Águas Belas, which is entirely surrounded by Fulni-ô territory.

Jorge Hernández Díaz
Instituto de Investigaciones Sociológicas
Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca
jorgehd00@yahoo.com.mx
September, 1998
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