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The Canela are found in northeastern central Brazil. It is an area between the rain forest of the Amazonian basin to the south and the more arid Brazilan northeast. The Canela are a hunting and gathering people with some primitive agriculture. This involved clearing trees and brush, They had no metal tools and this was done laboriously with stone axes and fires. Since the land waa marginal at nest, the tribal groups had to move regularly as they exhausted plots and resources. he tribe developed a military culture, warring with neighboring people. Most of the tribes linked culturally to the Canela are found in the Amazon basin. The draining in the Canela homeland is not into the Amazon, but directly into the Atlantic. The Canela today live primarily in one large village in Maranhão state built in the traditional circular arrangement. The Canela language is Gê, a language family spoken by other Brazilian tribes such as the Timbira peoples who lived in Maranhão and Piaui state. The Canela are notable for their destinctive bonding rituals, part of their conflict resolution behaviot which they call 'mending ways'.
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