First contacts / by Vincent Carelli.
| Other author | Carelli, Vincent. |
| Other author | Documentary Educational Resources (Firm) |
| Format | Video (Streaming) |
| Publication Info | Watertown, Mass. : Documentary Educational Resources, ©2007. |
| Description | 1 streaming video (19 min.). |
| Supplemental Content | Access restricted to subscribers |
| Subjects |
| Series | Indians in Brazil Video in the villages series Indians in Brazil. ^A1143514 Video in the villages series. ^A1143515 |
| Abstract | With the colonization of Brazil's Mid-West in the 1950s and the construction of the Transamazonica and other highways in the 1970s, whites began to make large-scale contact with Indians, with disastrous results. Epidemics decimated populations of groups such as the Cinta-Larga, with the deaths amounting in some cases to veritable genocide. Groups of Indians were separated from relatives, their land parceled out to settlers under the auspices a colonial mythology that advocated "progress" over the rights of indigenous people. Archive footage shows the "pacification" of the Xavantes People, the Cinta Larga People in Rondônia, and the Parakanas in the south of Pará , and how this catastrophic contact decimated these populations. Even into the year 2000, a FUNAI crew works to find small, still-isolated groups that might be under threat from farmers and prospectors. In this video, the last survivor of an annihilated people refuses to make contact. |
| General note | Title from container. |
| Date/time/place of a event note | Originally produced in 2000. |
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