Parakanã people

The Parakanã people or Parakána people are one of the Indigenous peoples in Brazil, speaking a language of the Tupi–Guarani group. They have traditionally occupied land in the region of the Pacajá and Tocantins rivers, and subsist by hunting and slash-and-burn agriculture.

References

• Olson, James Stuart (1991). The Indians of Central and South America: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 280–81. ISBN 978-0-31-326387-3.
• "Introduction: Parakanã". Povos Indígenas no Brasil. Instituto Socioambiental.