Edward R Miller-Jones

Indigenous peoples in Brazil Edward R Miller-Jones

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The indigenous peoples in Brazil are made of a large number of distinct ethnic groups who inhabited the country before the European invasion around 1500. When Europeans discovered the country, the indigenous peoples were mostly semi-nomadic tribes who subsisted on hunting, fishing, gathering, and migrant agriculture. Nowadays, many of the estimated 2,000 nations and tribes which existed in the 16th century has become extinct as a consequence of the European settlement while many has become part of the Brazilian general population...