Kanoé people
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The Kanoé people in the region of the Igarape Omere and south or west of Rondônia, in Brazil, near the border of Bolivia.[1]
Few Kanoe exist; in 2002, they numbered 95.[2] There are two bands of Kanoe. The majority live along the banks of the Guaporé River; and there is a single family of three people, uncontacted prior to 1995, who live on the Omerê River, a tributary of the Corumbiara. All struggle for physical and cultural survival in an area that is now occupied by lumbermen, landjumpers, and other agents who often threaten the Kanoe existence.[3]
[edit] Language
The Kanoe people speak the Kanoe language, though it faces extinction because of the dwindling number of native speakers and because those who do speak it have intermarried with other tribes who speak other languages.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Endangered groups in Brazil. Email memo. University Eastern Michigan (1995-12-14). Retrieved on 2007-09-22.
- ^ Akuntsu and Kanoê. Retrieved on 2007-09-22.
- ^ http://www.socioambiental.org/pib/epienglish/kanoe/kanoe.shtm. Retrieved on 2007-09-22.
