List of indigenous peoples of Brazil
This is a list of the Brazil's indigenous or native peoples. This is a "sortable" listing of peoples, associated language families, indigenous locations, and population estimates with dates. A particular group listing may include more than one area because the group is distributed in more than one area. Background. The indigenous peoples in Brazil () comprise a large number of distinct ethnic groups, who have inhabited the country prior to the European. The word "índios" ("Indians"), was by then established to designate the people of the Americas and is still used today in the  Portuguese language to designate these peoples, while the people of Asiatic India are called "indianos". At the time of first European contact, some of the indigenous peoples were traditionally semi-nomadic tribes who subsisted on hunting, fishing, gathering, agriculture, and arboriculture. Many of the estimated 2,000 nations and tribes which existed in the 16th century died out as a consequence of the European settlement. Most of the indigenous population died due to European diseases and warfare, declining from an estimated pre-Columbian high of millions to some 300,000 in 1997, grouped into some 200 tribes. A few tribes were assimilated  into the Brazilian population. In 2007, FUNAI reported that it had confirmed the presence of 67 different uncontacted tribes in Brazil, an increase from 40 in 2005. With this addition Brazil has now surpassed New Guinea as the country having the largest number of uncontacted peoples. Seven "Terras Indígenas" (TI) (Reservations) are exclusively reserved for isolated people: