Kadiwéu
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The Kadiweu are an ethnic group indigenous to the Gran Chaco region of South America, presently living in Southwest Brazil. As of 1998, they numbered about 1500 people, divided into four villages.[1]
They are a branch of the Guaycuru peoples and speak the characteristic Kadiweu language that belongs to the Mataco-Guaicuru family. They are believed by anthropologists to be the descendants of the historic Mbayá people. The name is now spelled kadiwéu in Portuguese (plural kadiwéus), and was formerly spelled caduveu or caduveo.[1]
The Kadiweu today live in the Kadiweu Indigenous Land in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul in the municipality of Porto Murtinho, between the Serra de Bodoquena and the Nabileque and Aquidavão rivers.[1]
References
- ^ a b c Alain Fabre (2006), Los guaykurú, Part 3 of Los pueblos del Gran Chaco y sus lenguas. Suplemento Antropológico, volume 41 issue 2, pp. 7–132. Asunción, Paraguay. Online version updated 2009-07-30, accessed on 2009-11-23.