Indigenous people of Brazil
Indigenous may refer to:
*Indigenous peoples
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,
Bolivia
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, and
Peru
Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...
. They live along the Acre River in Bolivia. In Brazil they mostly live in the Mamoadate Indigenous Territory, although some live in the Chico Mendes Extractivist Reserve, both in
Acre
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.
Name
Besides Machinere, they are also called Machineri, Manchinere, Manchineri, Manitenére, Manitenerí, and Maxinéri.
Language
Economy and subsistence
Machinere people hunt, fish, and farm using the
swidden
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method. They grow crops of maize,
manioc
''Manihot esculenta'', common name, commonly called cassava, manioc, or yuca (among numerous regional names), is a woody shrub of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, native to South America, from Brazil, Paraguay and parts of the Andes. Although ...
, rice, papaya, peanut, pumpkin, sugarcane, and sweet potato."Manchineri: Productive activities." ''Povos Indígenas no Brasil.'' Retrieved 20 Feb 2012.