Tabajara

Tabajara (Portuguese pronunciation: [tabaˈʒaɾɐ]; plural: Tabajaras) are an Indigenous people of Brazil who lived on the easternmost portion of the Atlantic coast of northeast Brazil in the period before and during Portuguese colonization.

Nowadays, they live in the states of Ceará, Paraíba and Piauí.

During the colonial period, populations of Indians, Tabajara among them, were decimated by being slaughtered by the colonists, driven inland, enslaved, dying of European-introduced diseases and intermarrying.

They currently live in the regions of Poranga, Monsenhor Tabosa, Tamboril, Crateús and Quiterianópolis and in the backcountry of Ceará.

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Distribution of indigenous groups on the Brazilian coast in the 16th century