Parkatejê

The Parkatêjê are a Timbira-speaking people of the eastern Amazon, associated with the forest country near the Tocantins River. Their name means “people downstream,” distinguishing them from related groups known as people upstream. The Parkatêjê share language and cultural ties with other Timbira peoples, whose villages extend across the transition between the Amazon forest and the wooded savannas farther east.