People group profile · PG017023
The Miriti-Tapuia of Brazil
The Miriti-Tapuia of Brazil, numbering about 125 people, are Unengaged and Unreached. They are a Tucanoan people of the lower and middle Tiquie River in Amazonas's Upper Rio Negro region, part of a linguistic exogamy system where men must marry women who speak a different language than their own.
They are an indigenous people in the South American Indigenous people cluster of the Latin American and Caribbean Peoples. Their primary religion is Animism, and they primarily speak Tucano.
Fast facts
- Country
- Brazil
- Population
- 125
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- South American Indigenous
- Primary language
- Tucano (tuo)
- Primary religion
- Animism
- Strategic Progress Index ?
- Unengaged and Unreached
- Evangelical
- No Known Evangelicals
- GSEC ?
- Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
- Lostness priority ?
- Frontier Unreached People Group
- Region
- South America, Americas
- Location
- Amazonas state. Wasona users primarily in Yacayacá village
Where they live
Gospel status
The Miriti-Tapuia are Unengaged and Unreached, which means fewer than 2% are evangelical Christians, and there has been no reported church planting activity in the past two years. In GSEC terms, this people group is less than 2% evangelical, some evangelical resources are available, but there has been no active church planting among them within the past two years.
- Congregations exist No
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Miriti-Tapuia
- Pray that God would send workers to this people group
- Begin sowing the gospel and seek out people of peace
- Plant the first churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice
Primary religion
Animism · Ethnoreligion
90% adherents
Primary language
Tucano · Tucanoan family
100% speak Tucano
Gospel resources in Tucano
- Bible available, published 2015
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Bibles
- 2004 Bible League International · video, audio, text
- 2005 Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc. · video, audio, text
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Miriti-Tapuia
- Revelation 7:9. Pray for the day when people from this group stand before the throne with every nation, tribe, people and language.
- John 17:3. Pray that many will come to know the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom he has sent.
- Psalm 27:1. Pray that new believers will be strengthened in the face of persecution, with the Lord as their stronghold.
- Romans 12:4–5. Pray that believers from many cultures will work together as one body so that the church is built up.
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