Purí and Coroado

Purí and Coroado, two South American Indian tribes closely related in language and culture. According to a Coroado tradition, a feud between two families had caused the aboriginal tribe to divide in two. They lived in the lowlands of Mato Grosso state, Brazil. The Purí language is a dialect of Coroado, of the Macro-Ge linguistic group. Before contact with white settlers at the end of the 18th century, both tribes were hunters and gatherers in...