ocr: Brazil's population is highly diverse.It includes indigenous Indian groups who have had little contact with the outside world, as well as the descendants of both its Portuguese colonizers and the Atricans brought to work the sugar plantations in the 17th century. More recent immigrant groups include both Italians andJapanese. Amerindians suffer prejudice from most other peoples in Brazil. Since 1900, - 87 Amerindian groups have become extinct as aresult of disease, starvation or the torceful taldng of their land by miners, settlers and loggers. The Amerindian population today is estimated at j ...
