Kaiabi people

The Kayabi, also Kaiabi, Kajabi, Kayaby, Caiabi, Cajabi, are an indigenous people in Brazil in the states of Mato Grosso, mostly in the Xingu National Park, and partly in southern Pará rivers Teles Pires and Tatuí.

The total number of members of the Tupi Guarani or Tupi- speaking people amounted in 1999 to a thousand. Illiteracy is high.

The origin of the proper name of the people is unclear. It is possible that he means something like " we ourselves ".

The Kayabi been exposed since the 1950s, the threat of land by rubber tappers and were thus divided into three groups.