Ethnos

Guarani

The Guarani are primarily a tribal people indigenous to Paraguay and some regions of Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia.

The Guarani are part of a large cultural-linguistic (the tupí-guaraní) people native to a South-American civilization first encountered by the early Indo-Iberian settlers arriving in the region.

Roland Joffe's 1986 film The Mission was about the Guarani and their role in a battle between the Jesuits and Portuguese Government over them. Though the specific battle was fictitious, it is heavily allegorical to the situation of many real Guarani throughout the ages. ***