tupinamba is incorrectly written, and should be written as "tupinambá" being its meaning: tupinambaEl term tupinamba is an ethnonym that means the oldest or first, and refers both to an indigenous nation that comprised the tamoios, the temimino, the tupiniquim and the proper tupinambaes.When you talk about the tupinambaes, refers to the tribes that formed the Confederation of the Tamoios, whose objective was to fight against the Portuguese, known by the name of buts. Despite sharing a single ethnic origin, the different tribes that made up the tupinamba nation constantly fought each other, driven by the desire for revenge which resulted in bloody wars in which the prisoners were captured for slaughter in ritual anthropophagic.