Camecran

Camecran, the collective name of five Brazilian tribes, who inhabit the forests between the provinces of Para and Goyaz. The several tribes are Chr-, Crore-, Ma-, Pio-, and Pore-Camecran. When Jose Pinto de Magalhaes founded the settlement of Alcantara, on the right bank of the Tocantins, in 1809, he contracted an alliance with the Ma-Camecrans, by whose aid all the others were reduced, and have since been for the most part mansos (civilised). They appear to be a branch of the great Guarani-Tupi family, although the language differs greatly from Guarani.