Kaninde

The Kanindé are an Indigenous people of Ceará, kin to the Janduí and Paiacu and descended from the Tarairiu groups of the northeastern sertão. Their extinct Tarairiu tongue belonged to the Macro-Jê family and was replaced by Portuguese.

They take their name from the war leader Canindé, foremost chief of the Janduís, who led the Cariri confederation's resistance to the Portuguese in the seventeenth century and in 1692 forced the Portuguese Crown to sign a peace treaty, later broken by the settlers.

Kanindé oral tradition places their origin around Mombaça, from where they migrated with their Jenipapo-Kanindé kin along the Curu River to the Baturité massif. The communities of Aratuba and Canindé keep a hunting culture of traps and seasonal game rules alongside subsistence farming.