Xerente people
Sign in to savethumb|right|Xerente woman Xerente (alternate Sherenté, Xerentes, and Xerénte) are an indigenous people of Brazil living in Tocantins.
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- Instance of
- ethnic group
- Languages spoken
- Jê
- Native language
- Jê
- Population
- 3509
- Country of origin
- Brazil
- Image
- Xerente 1809a.JPG
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- Xerentes
- native label
- Xerente
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- pib.socioambiental.org/pt/Quadro_Geral_dos_Povos
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thumb|right|Xerente woman Xerente (alternate Sherenté, Xerentes, and Xerénte) are an indigenous people of Brazil living in Tocantins.
The Xerente are a Central Jê people related to the Xavante. They maintained generally "peaceful" relations with outsiders from the nineteenth century onward. Their villages were traditionally built in a semi-circular fashion, but the society has largely assimilated Brazilian standards of organization. As of 2007 use of the native language among the 1813 members is universal, with most being monolingual until age 5.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Xerente people” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.