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Karajá (Iny)

1658 – present
Native nationSouth America

The Iny, 'the people', fishers and canoe-makers of the Araguaia who strung their villages along the great river and around Ilha do Bananal, the world's largest river island, and modelled the famed ritxoko clay dolls.

Raided by bandeirantes from the 1600s and warred upon by the Crown in 1811, the Karajá nonetheless held their river; from ~45,000 they fell to a few thousand, but ~3,500 Iny endure today in villages along the Araguaia and on Bananal.

Borders in 2026 · drawn from 2 sourced border frames
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Borders over time

The atlas holds 2 border frames for Karajá (Iny) — the shape you scrub through changes in 1658 · 1811.

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