Metyktire

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The Metyktire is a native people who live on the Menkregnoti reservation in the Amazon basin. <ref>Reuters via the Irish Times, "'Unknown' tribe found in Amazon" 1 June 2007</ref> They were discovered in May 2007 and are estimated to have about 87 members. The Metyktire form part of the Kayapo people and speak an archaic version of the Kayapo language. <ref>Associated Press via the San Francisco Chronicle, "Indian Tribe Found in Brazil's Amazon", June 1 2007</ref>

When discovered, they had not had any known contact with Western civilization. This was attributed to their location on the 12.1 million acre reservation, in an area difficult to access due to dense jungle and lack of nearby rivers. The Metyktire are a subgroup of the Kayapo tribe, but had little to no recent contact with them until two members visited a Kayapo village in May 2007.<ref name="ap">Template:Cite news</ref>

The Kayapo believe the Metyktire formed when several families fled deeper into the jungle in the 1950s.<ref name="ap" />