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but still experienced massacres and disease. Due to this history, they have a distrust of non-Xavante people. Today they are still wary of any approach of non-Xavante, called "waradzu".

The Xavante leader Mário Juruna was the first Indigenous Brazilian to become a federal representative.

The Xavante, like other Indigenous tribes, were treated badly by the government. Beginning in the 1960s, the Xavante were moved from their homeland in Mato Grosso to a southern, malnourished area of

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