Fontes para história indígena no alto rio negro - levantamento e classificação

Abstract

The history of the colonial period was treated for a long time as something constituted of "great men" and "brilliant deeds" of the authorities involved in the political framework of occupation of the Amazon territory. However, this work sought to highlight information about the captaincy of Rio Negro and the indigenous populations at that time, since they are not perceived by the historiography of the period as historical agents, in view of the specific contexts in which these works were created. This research was carried out in the Public Archive of Pará, where a rich documentation about the period and the Rio Negro region is found. The documentation treated is manuscripts from the 18th century, between the 1950s and 1960s. These are organized in codices, with about 100 to 150 unpublished correspondences of "several" with the government. The methodology used followed the survey (reading) of the above mentioned manuscripts and bibliographical research with historiographical discussions. Part of the results is the survey of eight codices and the classification of 171 correspondence, containing the following information: institution; codex number; period; document number; addressee and sender; place where it was written; date and year; informative summary. By analyzing this documentation, we can see a great deal of information about the social relations between colonizer and indigenous people in the Negro River by the geopolitics of the Marquis of Pombal's government. Within this political context, other references point to the so-called descimentos indígenas occasioned by the pombaline policy.