Tupinambá people
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The Tupinambá (plural: Tupinambás) are one of the various Tupi ethnic groups that inhabited present-day Brazil since before the conquest of the region by Portuguese colonial settlers. In the first years of contact with the Portuguese, the Tupinambás lived in the whole East coast of Brazil, and the name was also applied to other Tupi-speaking groups such as the Tupiniquim, Potiguara, Tupinambá, Temiminó, Caeté, Tabajara, Tamoio, and Tupinaé, among others.[1]
In an exclusive sense, it can be applied to the Tupinambá peoples who once inhabited the right shore of the São Francisco River in the Recôncavo Baiano and from the Cabo de São Tomé in Rio de Janeiro to the town of São Sebastião in São Paulo.[2] Their language survives today in the form of Nheengatu.
In the 21st century, the Tupinambá people live in Pará, and the south region of Bahia around Olivença. The Tupinambá of Olivença's fight for land recognition started in 2005[3] and reclaimed about 90 farms.[4] As a result, they opened indigenous schools with their own teaching methods in 2006.[3][5]