Are there Native Brazilians living away from non-indigenous people?
In recent years there have been at least 42 evidences of the existence in Brazil of ‘isolated Indians’. That is the denomination given to those Indians which the organ of the Federal Government in charge of Indian affairs, the Fundação Nacional do Índio – National Foundation for the Indian – Funai has not established contact. No one knows for sure who they are, where they are, how many they are and what languages they speak. The little that is known about them is that 25 of those evidences have occurred within Indigenous Lands that have already been demarcated or have some degree of recognition by Federal organs. Of the 42 evidences, Funai has already confirmed 12.
