“The Lords of the Forest”: Impressions on the indians in the press

• Autor(a) principal: Rodrigues, Cintia Regia
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Estudos Ibero-Americanos
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/index.php/iberoamericana/article/view/34159
• topic: Indigenous; Politics indigenist; Press; Indígenas; Política indigenista; Prensa; Indígenas; Política Indigenista; Imprensa

The present work aims to present the discourses produced on the natives in Santa Catarina through the press, especially in the press of Blumenau/ SC, in the context of the creation of SPILTN (Service of Protection to the Indian and Location of National Workers), which was inaugurated in 1910 by the federal government. The newspaper was the Der Urwaldsbote in the time cut from 1910 to 1914. Newspapers are to be apprehended as historical sources, not as an “expression of the truth” of an age or as impartial conductors in the “transmission of information”, but as one of the instruments by which society interprets and re-elaborates their perceptions, therefore produces speeches. The article analyzes how indigenous people were perceived in the press at the threshold of the elaboration and implementation of a national policy for the indigenous issue, concomitantly with the progress that was under way in the country and the issue of immigration and colonization.