Fulni O

The Fulni-ô are associated with the Ipanema River country around Águas Belas in Pernambuco. Historical accounts also called them Carnijós, Carijós or Cajaú. Their Ia-tê language is distinct from the Kariri languages, and they were not simply a surviving branch of the Kariri. An eighteenth-century record comes from the General Information of the Captaincy of Pernambuco, which lists 323 people at Ribeira do Panema in 1749. Local tradition also links Fulni-ô help with the building of the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Conceição at Ipanema.