The remaining Kapinawá, a community comprising approximately 800 people, live in a reservation and village system occupying an area of 12,260 hectares, at Mina Grande, Municipality of Buíque, Pernambuco.
Agriculture and straw handicraft are their basic means of subsistence.
As a tradition, they dance the toré, that is presented utilizing African music and coco, and performed at a place called Furna, where human remains have been found. There is information that many Indians were burned at that location.
The Kapinawá do not have their own language.
Recife, 19 August 2003.
( Updated 28 August 2009)
sources consulted
SÁ, Marilena Araújo de. "Yaathe" é a resistência dos Fulni-ô. Revista do Conselho Estadual de Cultura, Recife, Ed. especial, p. 48-54, 2002.
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Source: GASPAR, Lúcia. Índios Kapinawá. Pesquisa Escolar Online, Joaquim Nabuco Fundation, Recife.Available at: <hhttps://pesquisaescolar.fundaj.gov.br/en/>. Accessed: day month year. Exemple: 6 August 2009