Pano

The Pano group includes peoples of the southwestern Amazon in eastern Peru, northern Bolivia and western Brazil: the Uni, known as Cashibo or Kakataibo, the Pacahuara and the Kaxarari, who speak Panoan languages, together with the Tacanan-speaking Ese Ejja and Tacana. The two language families may be related.

The Tacana met Inca expansion on the Beni River, and Franciscans entered their country around 1680 and founded missions after 1731. The Uni joined the rebellion of Juan Santos Atahualpa in 1744 and helped destroy the missions; in 1757 they killed a friar and drove off the rest.