Indigenous peoples in Brazil

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The indigenous peoples in Brazil are made of a large number of distinct ethnic groups who inhabited the country before the European invasion around 1500. When Europeans discovered the country, the indigenous peoples were mostly semi-nomadic tribes who subsisted on hunting, fishing, gathering, and migrant agriculture. Nowadays, many of the estimated 2,000 nations and tribes which existed in the 16th century has become extinct as a consequence of the European settlement while many has become part of the Brazilian general population...