Agriculturalists, traditionally their villages have been located near dense forests on non-flooding high ground, where they plant their crops. They arrived in the riverside region of the middle Araguaia about the second half of the 18th century. Baldus, Since then, they have oscillated between friendly co-existence to hostility and confrontation.
They had already reached the northern point of the island in Baldus, There were about people living in five villages, all located near the tributaries of the left bank of the Araguaia. He said these intermittent contacts oscillated between cordiality and hostility. Krause, , vol and Wagley, They were trading expeditions that often degenerated inot armed skirmishes, ambushes or bloody surprise attacks. This area consists of forests, hills and flat lands.
From these villages, which had large fields of crops on the sides of the hills, they went on long hunting and collecting expeditions to the riverside fields along the Araguaia's tributaries, especially during the summer. To the north of this region, near the Beleza river, was the Xexotawa village, one of the most northerly and the only one to remain inhabited until the end of the period.
These unions, which began in the 50s and 60s, were initially an answer to the need to repopulate the group. At the end of the s, a violent outbreak of malaria, influenza and the ordinary common cold led the population to collapse to less than one hundred people Baldus, He was accompanied by about two dozen people.
This group decided to live in a village that was not so subject to contacts with outsiders and the diseases they brought with them. The village was sacked and most of the houses, including the House of Men, were burned. The precise date of the attack is unknown because they had no contact with the outside world. Carried out at night, it led the population to disperse and divide into two groups, isolated from each other, ignorant of each other's fate, believing the others were lost or dead.
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