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Huni Kuin
Kaxinawá
Total population
Huni Kuin village in Acre
9,954^[1]
Regions with significant populations
Brazil (Acre)
Brazil	7,535 (2010)^[1]
Peru	2,419 (2007)^[1]
Languages
Kashinawa^[2]
Religion
Traditional tribal religion

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The Huni Kuin (also known as: Kaxinawá, Cashinahua, Kaschinawa, Kashinawa, Caxinauás) are an Indigenous people of Brazil and Peru. Their villages are located along the Purus and Curanja Rivers in Peru and the Tarauacá, Jordão, Breu, Muru, Envira, Humaitã, and Purus Rivers in Brazil.^[3]

In the Peruvian Amazon rainforest, some Huni Kuin live on the Alto Purús Indigenous Territory with the Kulina people.^[3]

Name

The name Huni Kuin means "true people" or "people with traditions". The alternative name Kaxinawá means "cannibals", "bat people" and "people who walk about at night". It is still widespread in literature, yet the Huni Kuin reject the name as an insult.^[4]

Language

The Huni Kuin speak the Kaxinawá language, a Panoan language.^[2] They call their language Hancha Kuin, meaning "real words." Only 5% to 10% of the Huni Kuin in Peru speak Spanish and literacy rates are low.^[2]

Economy

Hunting is of paramount importance in Huni Kuin society. Huni Kuin also fish, gather plant foods, and grow crops through swidden, or slash-and-burn horticulture. Rice has become an export crop.^[5]

Women weave baskets, string bead jewelry, create utilitarian ceramics and weave hammocks and clothing. Men weave certain baskets, carve tools from wood, create featherwork and ceremonial regalia, and make canoes and weapons, such as clubs, spears, and bows and arrows. In hunting, shotguns are popular.^[5]

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c "Kaxinawá: Introduction." Povos Indígenas no Brasil. Retrieved 8 Dec 2011.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Kashinawa." Ethnologue. Retrieved 8 Dec 2011.
^ ^a ^b "Kaxinawá: Location." Povos Indígenas no Brasil. Retrieved 8 Dec 2011.
^ Povos Indígenas no Brasil (Instituto Socioambiental): Huni Kuin (Kaxinawá)
^ ^a ^b "Economy - Kashinawa." Countries and Their Cultures. Retrieved 8 Dec 2011.

Indigenous peoples of Brazil

Indigenous peoples of the North Region

Acre	Apurinã Asháninka Kaxinawá Kulina Machinere Yaminawá
Amapá	Aparai Kalina Karipuna Palikur Wayampi
Amazonas	Amahuaca Apurinã Banawá Baniwa Barasana Bora Cambeba Cubeo Dâw Hupda Jamamadi Juma Korubo Kulina Macuna Mawé Matis Matsés Munduruku Mura Parintintín Pirahã Pira-tapuya Siriano Tariana Tembé Tenharim Ticuna Tiriyó Tucano Turiwára Wai-wai Wayampi Wayana White Indians Witoto Yanomami Zuruahã
Pará	Amanayé Anambé Aparai Apiacá Arara (Pará) Araweté Atikum Karajá Kayapo Kỳikatêjê Munduruku Parkatêjê Parakanã Suruí (Pará) Tembé Tiriyó Turiwára Wai-wai Wayampi Wayana Zo'é
Rondônia	Aikanã Akuntsu Arara (Rondônia) Cinta Larga Gavião (Rondônia) Kanoê Karitiana Kwaza Paiter Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau Wari’
Roraima	Akawaio Macushi Patamona Pemon Wapishana Yanomami Ye'kuana
Tocantins	Apinajé Karajá Krahô Tapirapé Xambioá Xerente

Indigenous peoples of the Northeast Region

Bahia	Pataxó
Ceará	Kiriri Tabajara Tapeba
Maranhão	Awá-Guajá Canela Guajajara Ka'apor Krĩkatí Gavião-Pykobjê
Paraíba	Potiguara
Pernambuco	Xukuru

Indigenous peoples of the Central-West Region

Goiás	Avá-Canoeiro Karajá
Mato Grosso	Aimoré Apiacá Aweti Bakairi Bororo Chiquitano Cinta Larga Enawene Nawe Guató Ikpeng Kaiabi Kalapalo Kamayurá Karajá Kayapo Kuikuro Matipu Munduruku Nahukuá Nambikwara Paiter Panará Paresi Rikbaktsa Kĩsêdjê (Suyá) Tapayúna Tapirapé Terena Trumai Umutina Wauja Xavante Yawalapiti Yudjá Zoró
Mato Grosso do Sul	Chamacoco Guarani-Kaiowá Guató Kadiweu Mbayá Ofayé Terena

Indigenous peoples of the South and Southeast Regions

Espírito Santo	Tupiniquim
Minas Gerais	Aimoré Kaxixó Xakriabá
Santa Catarina	Xokleng
São Paulo	Aimoré Kaingang Terena
Widespread	Kaingang

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