The Zuruahã (also Suruahá , Indios do Coxodoá , and Suruwahá ) are an indigenous people of Brazil , living along the Purus River in the state of Amazonas .
2-514: The Zuruahã are an amalgamation of other tribes fleeing disease and violence, especially from the rubber boom . Some of the original Zuruahã traded with the rubber tappers but the tribe contracted influenza, resulting in a high death rate, from 1922 to 1924. The survivors withdrew away from non-native settlements. They enjoyed relative isolation from non-natives until the 1970s when missionaries and latex extractors entered their traditional territory. Daniel Everett reports that after first contact with
4-544: The outside world, some Zuruahá, including eight in a day, have begun to commit suicide by drinking curare . Pressures on their territories results in increased suicide by the Zuruahã. Sustained contact began in 1980. They are hunter-gatherers . In 1984, the Zuruahã Project was created to mitigate the adverse effects of outside contact on the Zuruahã people. In 2018 they were contacted to receive dental prostheses ,
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