File: Claude d ' Abbeville, Histoire de la mission, Louis Henri. png | A Tupinambá named " Louis Henri " who visited Louis XIII in Paris in 1613, in Claude d ' Abbeville, Histoire de la mission.

Tupinambá " Louis Henri " was sent on a visit to Louis XIII in Paris in 1613.

Tupinambá " Louis Henri " was sent on a visit to Louis XIII in Paris in 1613, in Claude d ' Abbeville, Histoire de la mission.

The following description, largely from Jean de Léry's account of his trip to Brazil in the 16th century applies specifically to the Tupinambá natives who lived along the coast of central Brazil.

Villegaignon secured his position by making an alliance with the Tamoio and Tupinambá Indians of the region, who were fighting the Portuguese.

On one voyage, he was captured by the Tupinambá people of Brazil, who, he claimed, practised cannibalism.

In his famous essay " Of Cannibals " ( 1580 ), Michel de Montaigne, himself a Catholic, reported that the Tupinambá people of Brazil ceremoniously eat the bodies of their dead enemies as a matter of honor, but he reminded his readers that Europeans behave even more barbarously when they burn each other alive for disagreeing about religion ( he implies ): " One calls ' barbarism ' whatever he is not accustomed to.

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The word comes to English from one of the Tupi – Guarani languages, presumably the Amazonian trade language Tupinambá, via Portuguese jaguar.

Other Amerindians, such as the Inca of the Andes, the Tupinambá of Brazil, the Creek of Georgia, and the Comanche of Texas, also owned slaves.

Some examples of these tribes are: Tupiniquim, Tupinambá, Potiguara, Tabajara, Caetés, Temiminó, Tamoios.

The Tupinambá tribe is fictitiously portrayed in Nelson Pereira dos Santos ' satirical 1971 film, How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman ( Como Era Gostoso o Meu Francês ); its name is also adapted by science ( as Tupinambis ) for the tegus, arguably the best-known lizards of Brazil.

Several indigenous tribes occupied the coast of Northeastern Brazil for several thousand years, and the hills of the present day municipality of Olinda had settlements of Caetés and Tupinambá tribes, which were frequently at war.

Caramuru was a Portuguese settler in the Tupinambá Indians.

Old Tupi was firstly spoken by a pre-literate Tupinambá people, living under cultural and social conditions very unlike those found in Europe.

Homosexual and transgender individuals were also common among other pre-conquest civilizations in Latin America, such as the Aztecs, Mayans, Quechuas, Moches, Zapotecs, and the Tupinambá of Brazil.

Tupinambis was merely a metalinguistic term meaning ' to / for the Tupinambá ,' whereas the intended, indigenous name for the animal was teiú-guaçú, lit.

Originally the town was a large village of the Tupinambá tribe.

Curiously, the Tupinambá do not eat during their drinking parties, just as they do not drink at meals ; and they find the European custom of mixing the two things very strange.

-1557 ), called Caramuru by the Tupinambá, was a Portuguese settler born in Viana do Castelo.

He departed for the Portuguese colony of Brazil in 1509, and his ship wrecked in the coast of Bahia, Diogo Álvares found himself among the Tupinambá Indians.

300 naked men were employed to illustrate life in Brazil and a battle between the Tupinambá allies of the French, and the Tabajara Indians.

The Tupinambá were one of the various Tupi ethnic groups that inhabited present-day Brazil before the conquest of the region by Portuguese colonial settlers.

Image: Hans_Staden, _Tupinamba_portrayed_in_cannibalistic_feast. jpg | Original 1557 Hans Staden woodcut of the Tupinambá portrayed in a cannibalistic feast.

At the royal entry of Henry II of France | Henry II in Rouen, 1 October 1550, 30 naked men were employed to illustrate life in Brazil and a battle between the Tupinambá allies of the French, and the Tabajara Indians.

Here she repudiated her earlier adoption of Alfonso and, with support from Martin V, named Louis III as her heir instead.

Originally, the award was known as the J. Louis Comiskey Memorial Award, named after the Chicago White Sox owner of the 1930s.

Braille is named after its creator, Frenchman Louis Braille, who went blind following a childhood accident.

In St. Louis, Busch also met and married a woman named Lilly Anheuser.

The ancient jawless fish Cephalaspis lyelli, which dwelt in the lochs of Scotland, was named by Louis Agassiz in honour of Lyell.

On the same day the French King Louis XII named Cesare Duke of Valentinois, and this title, along with his former position as Cardinal of Valencia, explains the nickname " Valentino ".

* Adele has a Dachshund named Louie, named after Louis Armstrong.

It was named by French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1756.

The former Louis XVI, now simply named Citoyen Louis Capet ( Citizen Louis Capet ), was executed by guillotine on 21 January 1793 on the Place de la Révolution, former Place Louis XV, now called the Place de la Concorde.

The now-defunct Robert Koch Hospital at Koch, Missouri ( south of St. Louis, Missouri ), was also named in his honor.

* Joliet, Illinois, United States, a city named after Louis Jolliet

The works are displayed on the Richelieu Wing's first floor and in the Apollo Gallery, named by the painter Charles Le Brun, who was commissioned by Louis XIV ( the Sun King ) to decorate the space in a solar theme.

One of Benedict's primary reforms was to ensure that all religious houses in Louis ' realm adhered to the Rule of Saint Benedict, named for its creator, Benedict of Nursia ( 480 – 550 ), the First Benedict.

A main-belt asteroid named 2267 Agassiz is also named in association with Louis Agassiz.

Louisiana was named after Louis XIV, King of France from 1643 – 1715.

When René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle claimed the territory drained by here the Mississippi River for France, he named it, meaning " Land of Louis ".

He is the only canonised king of France ; consequently, there are many places named after him, most notably St. Louis, Missouri and Mission San Luis Rey de Francia in the United States, São Luís do Maranhão, Brazil and both the state and city of San Luis Potosí in Mexico.

The Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Louis is a Roman Catholic religious order founded in 1842 and named in his honor.

The cities of San Luis Potosí in Mexico ; St. Louis, Missouri ; St. Louis, Michigan ; San Luis, Arizona ; San Luis, Colorado ; Saint-Louis du Sénégal ; Saint-Louis in Alsace ; as well as Lake Saint-Louis in Quebec, the Mission San Luis Rey de Francia in California and rue Saint Louis of Pondicherry are among the many places named after the king and saint.