People group profile · PG016802
The Huni Kuin of Brazil
The Huni Kuin of Brazil, numbering about 7,200 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an Acre people who call themselves Huni Kuin, meaning true people, unlike the outsider name Kaxinawa, or bat people, who fled into the forest to escape enslavement by rubber tappers in the late 1800s, with a Peruvian branch migrating there a century ago.
They are an indigenous people in the Amazon people cluster of the Latin American and Caribbean Peoples. Their primary religion is Ethnoreligion, and they primarily speak Cashinahua.
Fast facts
- Country
- Brazil
- Population
- 7,200
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- Amazon
- Primary language
- Cashinahua (cbs)
- Primary religion
- Ethnoreligion
- Strategic Progress Index
- No Longer Unreached
- Evangelical
- 15% or Greater but Less than 20%
- GSEC
- 10% or Greater Evangelical
- Lostness priority
- Moderately Reached People Group
- Also known as
- Huin Kui
- Region
- South America, Americas
Where they live
Gospel status
The Huni Kuin are No Longer Unreached, which means 2% or more are evangelical Christians. In GSEC terms, this people group is greater than or equal to 10% evangelical.
- Congregations exist Yes
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Huni Kuin
- Pray for the churches among this group to grow in faithfulness and maturity
- Equip believers to reach the unreached peoples around them
- Send out laborers from this people to the nations
Primary religion
Primary language
Cashinahua · Pano-Tacanan family
100% speak Cashinahua
Gospel resources in Cashinahua
- Bible available
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Films
- JESUS (Juni Kuin)
Bibles
- La Sociedad Bíblica Peruana · video, audio, text
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Huni Kuin
- Romans 10:14–15. Ask God to send messengers, so that people can hear, believe and call on the name of the Lord.
- Matthew 9:37–38. Ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest field.
- 2 Timothy 2:2. Pray for faithful local leaders who will teach others, so that the church multiplies.
- Ephesians 5:8. Pray that those walking in darkness will turn to the light and live as children of light.
Huni Kuin in other countries
The same people (ROP3 101893) is reported in 1 other country.
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