decree) of the Empire of Brazil. The state governor of Ceará issued a decree in 1863 declaring the Tremembé an extinct people, remaining Indians officially regarded as caboclos (mixed-race) or "descendents" of Indians, but not an existing ethnicity. Nonetheless, the Tremembé resurged and received recognition from the Fundação Nacional do Índio in the 1980s. Notable Tremembé Kunã Yporã Tremembé: Vice-Presidential Candidate for the Unified Workers' Socialist Party of Brazil during the 2022 Brazilian Election Language The original language of the Tremembé is extinct. Current members of the ethnicity speak Portuguese as their mother tongue. The language is unclassified, but generally believed to have not been part of the Tupi–Guarani family (thus, "Tapuia", or non-Tupi). Nonetheless, the Tremembé may have borrowed a considerable number of Tupi words through interaction with their Tupi neighbors. Notes External links Tremembé at Povos Indígenas no Brasil (in Portuguese). Indigenous peoples in Brazil Indigenous peoples of Eastern Brazil