The Suruí are an
indigenous people of Brazil
Indigenous peoples in Brazil ( pt, povos indígenas no Brasil) or Indigenous Brazilians ( pt, indígenas brasileiros, links=no) once comprised an estimated 2000 tribes and nations inhabiting what is now the country of Brazil, before European con ...
who live in the state of
Pará
Pará is a state of Brazil, located in northern Brazil and traversed by the lower Amazon River. It borders the Brazilian states of Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Amazonas and Roraima. To the northwest are the borders of Guyana ...
. They are a different people than the
Suruí do Jiparaná.
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Name
The Suruí are also known as the Suruí, Sororós,[ Aikewara, Akewara, and Akewere people.][
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Language
The Suruí do Pará language belongs to Subgroup IV of the Tupi-Guarani language family. It is written in the Latin script
The Latin script, also known as Roman script, is an alphabetic writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greek city of Cumae, in southern I ...
, and literacy rates in the language are extremely low.[
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History
First prolonged contact with the modern world came in the late 1960s. The tribe was decimated by disease. In 1960, they experienced an influenza epidemic, followed by a smallpox
Smallpox was an infectious disease caused by variola virus (often called smallpox virus) which belongs to the genus Orthopoxvirus. The last naturally occurring case was diagnosed in October 1977, and the World Health Organization (WHO) c ...
epidemic in 1962. The Suruí fled their homeland due to attacks by the Xikrin people.[
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See also
* Indigenous peoples in Brazil
* List of Indigenous peoples in Brazil
This is a list of the Brazil's indigenous or native peoples.
This is a ''sortable'' listing of peoples, associated language families, indigenous locations, and population estimates with dates. A particular group listing may include more than one ...
Notes
Ethnic groups in Brazil
Indigenous peoples in Brazil
Indigenous peoples of the Amazon
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