Nac Nanuk

Nac Nanuk is a name recorded for an Indigenous group among the peoples called Botocudos by Portuguese colonists. Related communities occupied the forested valleys of the Jequitinhonha, Mucuri and Rio Doce in eastern Brazil. Colonial expansion and the “just war” authorised against Botocudo peoples in 1808 brought violent attacks and forced settlement to this wider region, whose inhabitants resisted the loss of their lands.