Os Awá e o mundo dos Karaiw

Abstract

The objective of this dissertation is to discuss the process of contact with Brazilian Awá from the 1950s to 1990. The Awá are an indigenous people inhabiting a region known as pre-Amazonian Maranhão, on the border between the states of Pará and Maranhão - Brazil, in three indigenous lands, Caru iT, iT and iT Alto Turiaçu Awá are supervised by four Indian posts of Funai, the PI Guajá, PI Awá, PI and PI Tiracambu Juriti. It is the most recent contact people in Maranhão and there is official information that there are about six isolated Awá groups, some of them on land not demarcated as indigenous. The Awá territory was occupied by farmers, farmers and by the implementation of state and private economic projects. It mainly addresses the initial contacts of the Awá with the expansion fronts that have entered their territory and the policies developed by Funai to realize the attraction of Awá and the post-contact actions. The Awá's contact with Brazilians provoked numerous changes in the way of life of this people and has triggered new processes of territorialization.