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Indigenous peoples of Brazil
The Indigenous peoples in Brazil (Portuguese: povos indígenas) consist of a large number of distinct ethnic groups who inhabited the country prior to the arrival of Europeans around 1500.
When Europeans first arrived, indigenous peoples were traditionally mostly semi-nomadic tribes who subsisted on hunting, fishing, gathering, and migrant agriculture.
It is estimated that of the 2,000 nations and tribes which existed in 1500, many died out as result of measles, smallpox, tuberculosis and influenza brought by the Europeans. Diseases spread quickly along indigenous trade routes, and whole tribes were likely annihilated without ever coming in direct contact with Europeans. Brazil's indigenous population has declined from a pre-Columbian high of an estimated at around 4 million to some 300,000 (1997), grouped into some 200 tribes. In the 2006 IBGE census, 519,000 Brazilians classified themselves as indigenous. January 18, 2007, FUNAI reported that it had confirmed the presence of 67 different uncontacted tribes in Brazil. Brazil's indigenous people have made many contributions to the country's material and cultural development.
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