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

Homeland of Xavante

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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)

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http://www.everyculture.com/wc/Brazil-to-Congo-Republic-of/Xavante.html#ixzz2vWh9MVra
http://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/voices/laura-graham/effects-modernization-xavante
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