Wai-wai people

Wai-wai
Wai-wai man
Total population
2,672
Regions with significant populations
 Brazil2,502 (2014)[1]
 Guyana170 (2006)[1]
Languages
Wai Wai language
Various local languages
Religion
Christianity, Animism

The Wai-wai (also written Waiwai or Wai Wai) are a Carib-speaking Indigenous people of Guyana and northern Brazil. Their society consists of different lowland forest peoples who have maintained much of their cultural identity with the exception of Christianity which was introduced to them in the late 1950s.

The Umana Yana in Georgetown, Guyana, takes its name from the Wai-Wai for "meeting place".

  1. ^ a b "Waiwai". Socio Ambiental (in Portuguese). Retrieved 28 February 2021.