Cultural Survival

 

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The Xavante hunt for food and plant crops. Towards the end of a rainy season, a man cuts down 2 or 3 trees and leaves them to dry. He sets the trees on fire and the ashes add mineral nutrients to the soil. They plant crops that have minimal tending such as corn, beans and pumpkins.

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http://www.thomaslkellyphotos.com/STOCK/INDIGENOUS-TRIBES/XAVANTE/i-94HjHWH/0/S/XAVANTE_TK44-S.jpg
  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panar%C3%A1_people  

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Great_Egret_Fish.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Whistling_duck_flight02_-_natures_pics-edit1.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WoodStorkWhole.JPG

 

http://www.everyculture.com/wc/Brazil-to-Congo-Republic-of/Xavante.html#ixzz2vWpF6U2n

http://pt.globalvoicesonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Xavante-Indians1.jpghttp://www.thomaslkellyphotos.com/STOCK/INDIGENOUS-TRIBES/XAVANTE/i-xB76Tzn/0/S/XAVANTE_TK45-S.jpg

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XAVANTE

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The culture that I was assigned to was Xavante. The "X" is pronounced as the letter "Z", so Xavante is pronounced as Zavan-tayy. I found them to be interesting because they live in Brazil, however are still living in the woods and refuse to adapt to the modern world. My family is from South America, (Guyana), which borders Brazil and Venezuela. I never knew that the Xavante existed and my blog will educate you with some knowledge about them.

History
Homeland
World of Xavante
Cosmos
Birds
Neighbors
Migrations and Diaspora
Cultural Survival
References

Xavante Migrations and Diaspora

Approximately 9,600 Xavante people live in Mato Grasso, Brazil. Mato Grasso is forest like and not modernized. The Xavante are able to live as indigenous and do not have to change their way of living.

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Neighbors of Xavante

Personally, I consider the Panará tribe as the neighbors of Xavante because they also reside in Mato Grasso, Brazil.Both tribes fit in with each other because they participate in mutual activities such as hunting and both speak the same language Ge or Je. Also, people in both cultures have a resemblence to one another.Both tribes are indegenous. There is not much information about the neighbors of the Xavante.

http://www.videonasaldeias.org.br/2009/realizadores.php?c=43
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panar%C3%A1_people

Birds of the Xavante

The top 5 birds spotted in the location that the Xavante live in (Mato Grosso, Brazil) are: Great Egret, Cattle Egret, Black Bellied Whistling duck, Wood Stork, and Snail Kite. The black bellied whistling duck can be spotted throughout the year along with the Wood Stork except for the month of January. The Cattle Egret was spotted March through November. The Great Egret was spotted throughout the whole year. The Snail Kite was spotted from February through November.Birds are important to the Xavante because they are part of their diet.

GREAT EGRET
 
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Great_Egret_Fish.jpg


CATTLE EGRET

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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Red-flush_Cattle_Egret.jpg


BLACK BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Whistling_duck_flight02_-_natures_pics-edit1.jpg


WOOD STORK

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WoodStorkWhole.JPG


SNAIL KITE
 
ADULT FEMALE^^


ADULT MALE^^
Source: Snail Kite's

Xavante Cosmos

The Xavante are more concerned with changes or discovery. Xavante believe that the east,the beginning of the sky,had not been created yet. The north and the south were created afterwards, as well as the whites and their towns. More detailed origin myths tell about people becoming human after being like animals. The beliefs and ceremonies of the Xavante revolve around their reverence for life and fertility.(everyculture.com).
They believe that the stars are the eyes of heavenly people who are watching us from up above.

Read more: http://www.everyculture.com/wc/Brazil-to-Congo-Republic-of/Xavante.html#ixzz2vWpF6U2n

World of the Xavante

The Xavante live in villages that are horseshoe shaped on the open savanna. Most live in  round structures  made of sticks & cane, and are covered with palm leaves all the way to the floor. Three families can share one house and are known as "beehive houses". The houses are built by the women.

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http://pt.globalvoicesonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Xavante-Indians1.jpg

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http://www.thomaslkellyphotos.com/STOCK/INDIGENOUS-TRIBES/XAVANTE/i-xB76Tzn/0/S/XAVANTE_TK45-S.jpg

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 http://www.everyculture.com/wc/Brazil-to-Congo-Republic-of/Xavante.html#ixzz2vWmMNTVl

Homeland of Xavante

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http://www.pantanal-pocone.net/de/pictures/pantanal/indio_tour/xingu/xingu_032010_085.jpg

 

The Xavante live in Southwestern Brazil, Mato Grasso to be exact. The land is grassy or similar to savanna. Patches of tropical jungle are found throughout the land and they prefer the grassland because it is better for them to hunt. The local jungles provide water, wild roots and fruit. They use trees and palms in order to make artifacts.

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http://www.pantanal-pocone.net/de/pictures/pantanal/indio_tour/xingu/xingu_032010_074.jpg

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http://www.everyculture.com/wc/Brazil-to-Congo-Republic-of/Xavante.html

Xavante History

 

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The Xavante are indigenous people meaning that they have a set of specific rights based on historical ties to a particular territory.  They live on six reserves located in Mato Grosso, Brazil. In the 16th century, Portuguese colonizers named the Amerindians that inhabited the north of the Goiás region Xavante. They were strong, rebellious, numerous, and protected their land by mining camps and raiding the settlers' cattle and crops. The Portuguese government placed the Xavante's into mission villages, in which many abandoned to live in Mato Grasso.

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In the late 1930s and 1940s, Xavante experienced renewed conflicts with peoples of European descent, as settlers and colonists began to move into the Rio das Mortes region. In 1946, after a period of extreme tension with settlers in the area, a Xavante group made their first peaceful contacts with representatives of Brazilian national society. Peaceful contacts with various disparate Xavante groups continued to be made throughout the 1950s and early 1960s.(culturalsurvival.org)

Sources:
http://www.everyculture.com/wc/Brazil-to-Congo-Republic-of/Xavante.html#ixzz2vWh9MVra
http://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/voices/laura-graham/effects-modernization-xavante
http://amazonia.org.br/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/xavante-300x199.jpg