What is Tupi people?
{{Infobox ethnic group | group = Tupí | image = Homtupinamba.jpg | caption = Albert Eckhout's painting of the Tupí | pop = 1,000,000 (historically), Potiguara 10,837, Tupinambá de Olivença 3,000, Tupiniquim 2,630, others extinct as tribes but blood ancestors to Pardo and Mestizo Brazilian population | regions = Central and Coastal Brazil | ref3 = | languages = [[Tupi language|Tupian languages]], later [[língua geral]], much later Portuguese | religions = [[#Religion|Indigenous]], later [[Christianity]] | related = }} The '''Tupí people''' were an important ethnic group of [[indigenous peoples in Brazil]]. Scholars believe they first settled in the [[Amazon rainforest]]. Later, they started to move to the south and settled on the Atlantic coast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.portalsorocabano.com.br/index.php/s-soc/47-c-cor/1717-saida-dos-tupi-guaranis-da-amazonia-pode-ter-ocorrido-ha-2900-anos|title=Saída dos tupi-guaranis da Amazônia pode ter ocorrido há 2.900 anos|publisher=|access-date=2015-11-11|archive-date=2011-10-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007173330/http://www.portalsorocabano.com.br/index.php/s-soc/47-c-cor/1717-saida-dos-tupi-guaranis-da-amazonia-pode-ter-ocorrido-ha-2900-anos|url-status=dead}}</ref> ==History== The Tupí people were living in almost all of the Brazilian coast when the [[Portugal|Portuguese]] first arrived there. In 1500, their population was estimated to be 1 million people. They were divided into [[tribe]]s, each tribe numbering from 300 to 2,000 people. Some of these tribes are: ''[[Tupiniquim people|Tupiniquim]]'', ''[[Tupinambá people|Tupinambá]]'', ''[[Potiguara]]'', ''[[Tabajara]]'', ''[[Caetés]]'', ''Temiminó'', ''Tamoios''. The Tupí had [[agriculture]]. They grew [[cassava]], [[maize|corn]], [[sweet potato]]es, [[bean]]s, [[peanut]]s, [[tobacco]], [[Squash (plant)|squash]], [[cotton]] and many other crops. ===European colonization=== After the 16th century, the Tupí