Goitacá people
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The Goitacá (or Goytacazes, among other variant spellings "Waytaquazes" "Ouetacá", "Waitaká") were an Indigenous people of Brazil. They are now extinct.
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The Goitacá (or Goytacazes, among other variant spellings "Waytaquazes" "Ouetacá", "Waitaká") were an Indigenous people of Brazil. They are now extinct.
The Goitacá were a "Tapuia" (i.e. non-Tupi) people, one of the few that still remained on the Tupi-dominated coast. They were said to be taller and lighter-skinned than the Tupi. Their name may stem from guatá, the Tupi word for "wayfarer" or "runner".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Goitacá people” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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