Xavante

Also known as Xavante people, Shavante, Chavante, Akuen, A'uwe, Akwe, Awen, Akwen

The Xavante (also Shavante, Chavante, Akuen, '''A'uwe, Akwe, Awen, or Akwen''') are an indigenous people, comprising about 30,000 individuals within the territory of eastern Mato Grosso state in Brazil. They speak the Xavante language, part of the Jê language family.

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Ethnic group.image: 250px
Ethnic group.group: Xavante
Ethnic group.population: 30,000
Ethnic group.popplace: Brazil
Ethnic group.languages: Xavante language

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Quadro Geral dos Povos - Povos Indígenas no Brasil

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Population: 22256
Image: Luta indigena.jpg

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Commons category: Xavantes
native label: Xavante
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==History== They were enslaved in the 18th century, after which they have tried to avoid contact. A temporary coexistence with westernized society in the 19th century in the state of Goiás, was followed by withdrawal to Mato Grosso (between 1830 and 1860). They were "re-discovered" during the 1930s. From 1946 to 1957, they were brought under Getúlio Vargas' National Integration Program, but still experienced massacres and disease. Due to this history, they have a distrust of non-Xavante people. Today they are still wary of any approach of non-Xavante, called "waradzu".