KAINGANG

The 'Kaingang' people are a Native American ethnic group spread out over the four southern Brazilian states of Sao Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul. They are also called Caingang and Aweikoma, though some sources list Kaingang and Aweikoma as separate groups. Their language and culture is quite distinct from the neighboring Guaraní. The Kaingangs rarely live long in one place.
Even though the Kaingang tribe has grown since the last 20 years, they still don't get respect from society. They have threatened to tear down power lines if they don't get their respect but that only led to 8 arrests of Kaingang tribespeople.
The language spoken by the Kaingang is a member of the Gê family (along with the Xavánte), a subset of the hypothetical Macro-Gê family (of Je-Tupi-Carib).
In 1949, Kaingang was the tribe with the most common occurrence of group marriage. Of recorded unions in 1941:

★ 8% were group marriages

★ 14% were polyandrous

★ 18% polygynous

★ 60% monogamous

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See also

★ Indigenous people of Brazil

References

★ Social Structure, , George Peter, Murdock, The MacMillan Company, 1949, ISBN 0-02-922290-7

Footnotes

Murdock, 1949.