Group: | Suruí do Pará |
Native Name: | Aikewara |
Population: | 383 (2014) |
Total Ref: | [1] |
Region1: | |
Pop1: | 383 |
Languages: | Suruí do Pará[2] |
Religions: | Native American religion |
Related: | Asuriní do Tocantins and Parakanã |
The Suruí are an indigenous people of Brazil who live in the state of Pará. They are a different people than the Suruí do Jiparaná.[2]
The Suruí are also known as the Sororós,[1] Aikewara, Akewara, and Akewere people.[2]
The Suruí do Pará language belongs to Subgroup IV of the Tupi-Guarani language family. It is written in the Latin script, and literacy rates in the language are extremely low.[2]
First prolonged contact with the modern world came in the late 1960s. The tribe was decimated by disease. In 1960, they experienced an influenza epidemic, followed by a smallpox epidemic in 1962. The Suruí fled their homeland due to attacks by the Xikrin people.[1]