Yudjá
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The Yudjá or Juruna are an Indigenous people of Brazil. They were formerly the major tribe along the Xingu River, but are now divided into two groups, a westernized northern group near Altamira, Para near the big bend of the Xingu and a more conservative group in the Xingu Indigenous Park at the headwaters of the Xingu in Mato Grosso. The southern group lives in two villages located near the mouth of the Maritsauá-Mitau River. They fish and raise crops, such as manioc.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Yudjá
- Ethnic group.population
- 348 (2010)
- Ethnic group.popplace
- ()
- Ethnic group.languages
- Yudjá, Portuguese
- Ethnic group.religions
- traditional tribal religion
via Wikipedia infobox
Described at
Quadro Geral dos Povos - Povos Indígenas no Brasil
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- indigenous people
- Subclass of
- indigenous peoples in Brazil
- Languages spoken
- Yuruna
- Native language
- Yuruna
- Country
- Brazil
- Located in
- Xingu Indigenous Park
- Population
- 880
- Country of origin
- Brazil
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- Commons category
- Jurunas
- native label
- Yudja
- described at URL
- pib.socioambiental.org/pt/Quadro_Geral_dos_Povos
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Encyclopedic overview
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The Yudjá or Juruna are an Indigenous people of Brazil. They were formerly the major tribe along the Xingu River, but are now divided into two groups, a westernized northern group near Altamira, Para near the big bend of the Xingu and a more conservative group in the Xingu Indigenous Park at the headwaters of the Xingu in Mato Grosso. The southern group lives in two villages located near the mouth of the Maritsauá-Mitau River. They fish and raise crops, such as manioc.
==Name== "Yudjá" is what they call themselves and now the standard name. "Juruna" is an exonym, apparently from Lingua Geral meaning ‘black mouth’ from a kind of face paint or tattoo they formerly used. “Juruna” (Yuruna languages) is also the name of a language group.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yudjá” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.