Puri people

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The Puri (also Puri-Coroado, Coroado, Telikong and Paqui) are an indigenous people of Brazil. The now-extinct Puri languages are thought to have belonged to the Macro-Jê language family. 675 people identified as Puri in 2010.

In the pre-colonial period the Puri occupied territory across the hydrographic basin of the Paraíba do Sul River as well as more limited areas in the basins of the Rio Grande and Doce rivers - territory spreading across what are now four states in the South East of Brazil: Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais and São Paulo.

In the colonial period, the Puri were dispossessed of their traditional lands, which covered much of the economic heartland of colonial Brasil. By the 17th century, to escape Colonial oppression, most if not all of the Puri people in what is today São Paulo state had migrated north along the Paraiba do Sul River to settle in villages in the lower basin of the river, around the tributary Pomba, Negro and Muriaé rivers - in today's northern Rio de Janeiro state.^[1]

By the end of the 19th century the distinct Puri language and identity had been lost and the Puri people were considered "extinct."^[2] However, in the 20th and 21st century people of Puri descent have begun to recover their indigenous identity.^[3]