Tupiniquim

The Tupiniquim were a Tupi people whose territory extended along the Brazilian coast south of Salvador. At Porto Seguro in April 1500, they were among the first Indigenous peoples to meet the Portuguese.

Tibiriçá, a Tupiniquim chief of Piratininga and an ally of the Portuguese and Jesuits, helped establish São Paulo in 1554. In 1562 he defended the settlement against an attack led by his nephew Jaguaranho; Tibiriçá died later that year during an epidemic.