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Aparai people

Ethnic group

Summary

Ethnic group

FieldValue
groupApalai
population564
region1Brazil (Amapá, Pará)
pop1514 (2014)
ref1
region2French Guiana
pop240 (2011)
ref2
region3Suriname
pop310 (2011)
ref3
relstraditional tribal religion
langsAparai, Wayana, Portuguese

The Aparai or Apalai are an indigenous people of Brazil, who live in Amapá and Pará states. A little community is located in French Guiana, in Antécume-Pata. They were sedentary slash-and-burn farmers, necessitating periodic relocation as soil became exhausted, but also hunters and gatherers. They spoke a Carib language and in the 20th century their subsistence shifted towards craftwork as they adapted to modern Brazil and the cash economy.

Name

The tribe calls themselves Aparai. They have been known by Apalai, Appirois, Aparathy, Apareilles, Apalaii, Aparis and Apalaís.

Language

Most Aparai people are multi-lingual, and many speak Aparai, Wayana, Portuguese, and Tiriyó, as well as Wajãpi, Aluku, and Criollo. The Aparai language is one of the Karib languages.

Population

In 1993, they numbered 450, and in 2014, there are 564 Apalai people. They usually live with the Wayana. The main group lives along the East Paru River in Brazil within Tumucumaque Indigenous Park and the East Paru Indigenous Land. A small group lives along the Maroni River in French Guiana. An even smaller group lives along the Tapanahoni River in Suriname.

Most settlements are small except for Aldeia Bona which was founded by FUNAI to concentrate the population of the Apalaí and Wayana. There are 18 settlements.

  • Aldeia Bona, Pará
  • Antécume-Pata, French Guiana
  • Missão Tiriyó, Pará
  • Paloemeu, Suriname
  • Suisuimënë, Pará
  • Twenkë, French Guiana

Notes

References

  1. "Aparai".
  2. [http://pib.socioambiental.org/en/povo/aparai/1106 "Aparai".] ''Povos Indígenas no Brasil''. (retrieved 17 March 2010)
  3. (2013). "Learning and Growing in indigenous Amazon. The Education System of French Guyana Wayana-Apalaï communities". Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences.
  4. [http://pib.socioambiental.org/en/povo/aparai/1104 "Aparai: Name and Language".] ''Povos Indígenas no Brasil''. (retrieved 17 March 2010)
  5. Boven, Karin M.. (2006). "Overleven in een Grensgebied: Veranderingsprocessen bij de Wayana in Suriname en Frans-Guyana". Rozenberg Publishers.
  6. . (30 June 2016). ["Caracterização do DSEI Amapá e Norte do Pará, conforme Edital de Chamada Pública n. 2/2017 (item 3.1)"](http://portalarquivos.saude.gov.br/images/pdf/2017/agosto/28/Caracterizacao-DSEI-Amapa-Chamada-Publica-n-02-2017.pdf).
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