Xakriaba

The Xakriabá are an Indigenous people of the São Francisco valley in northern Minas Gerais, related in language and culture to the Xerente and other central Jê peoples. Their homeland lies near the river and its tributaries, in a region of dry woodland and grassland. Colonial cattle raising brought outsiders into this territory, a history remembered in Xakriabá accounts of encounters with ranchers and missionaries.