Aimoré people

Aymoré or Botocudos (Portuguese: Botocudos derived from botoque = wooden stake, Faßspund ) is the historical name for Indians, mainly in the area of the state of Minas Gerais, lived in the forests of southeastern Brazil. The current designations are in 2012 Krenak ( in Portuguese: Crenaques ) or Borun. Your language and the surname of the members also hot Krenak. The number of members in 2011 was according to different specifications 600 or 1000 people. The most prominent member was in the 19th century Joachim Quaeck (actually Nuguäck ).

The term Botocudos derives from the widespread custom among some Indian tribes of wearing lip plates. Later the term was used generically but for all the Indians of Brazil, the central government or the European colonists resisted.

History

Originally Botocudos lived as hunter-gatherers in groups of 50 to 200 members. At the beginning of the 19th century it first came to serious armed conflicts with encroaching European settlers and later to persecution and discrimination that led practically to their extinction.

In 2007 there were, according to Microsoft Encarta still about 2,000 descendants of Botocudos mostly as farmers among the rural population .. According to Jimmie Durham the number of members in 2012 was only 600 people.

Their language and culture are almost completely extinct.

Colloquially the word Botocudos is also used as a pejorative synonym for an uneducated person with bad manners.

Pictures of Aimoré people

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