Indigenous peoples in Brazil
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Indigenous peoples in Brazil or Native Brazilians are the peoples whose ancestors lived in Brazil before European contact around 1500 and those pre-Columbian forebears. Indigenous peoples once compris
Xingu, an Indigenous territory of Brazil
Apiacá people, painted by Hércules Florence, 1827
Terena girl at the closing ceremony of the Indigenous Peoples Games
Terena people
Colonial Brazil
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Colonial Brazil, sometimes referred to as Portuguese America, comprises the period from 1500, with the arrival of the Portuguese, until 1815, when Brazil was elevated to a kingdom in union with Portug
The brazilwood tree, which gives Brazil its name, has dark, valuable wood and provides red dye
Historical centre of Salvador in 2007 – the architecture of the city's historic centre is typically Portuguese.
17th-century Jesuit church in São Pedro da Aldeia, near Rio de Janeiro
View of a sugar-producing farm (engenho) in colonial Pernambuco by Dutch painter Frans Post (17th century)