The Land Commission and the Indians in the colonization project in the First Republic – North of Rio Grande do Sul

• Autor(a) principal: Tedesco, João Carlos
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Neumann, Rosane
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Anos 90 (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/anos90/article/view/90486
• topic: Primeira República. Rio Grande do Sul. Toldos indígenas. Proteção fraterna. Intrusão.; First Republic. Rio Grande do Sul. Indigenous awnings. Fraternal protection. Intrusion.

This article deals with the policy of fraternal protection of indigenous people and the intrusion of land into their awnings, articulated with the colonization project implemented by the republican government in the north of Rio Grande do Sul, via the Land and Colonization Directorate; it analyses initially the policy offraternal protection of indigenous people, outlined and defended by Torres Gonçalves, and then the delimitation of the space of indigenous awnings and the release of public land for colonization, as well as the unfolding of this policy in the daily activities of the Land and Colonization Commission. The sources revolve around the Report of the Directorate of Lands and Colonization of the state, between 1910 and 1920. We conclude that the policy of fraternal protection of the positivist government, in particular of its most humanist wing, was confronted with unscrupulous public officials, who did not know the reality of the indigenous people and printed actions that produced conflicts within the public sphere in charge of the colonization processes and with the indigenous people; as well as that there were multiple interests around the land, a fact that resulted in the indigenous aldeaments.