Caeté

The Caeté were a Tupi-speaking indigenous people on Brazil's coast between the São Francisco River and Itamaracá. They cultivated crops including maize and cotton and fought neighbouring peoples.

In 1556 the Caeté captured and killed the shipwrecked bishop Pero Fernandes Sardinha and his companions. The Portuguese launched a campaign against them in 1556–1558, and a royal decree permitted the perpetual enslavement of captives.