Os selvagens da província: índios, brancos e a política indigenista no Rio Grande do Sul entre 1834 e 1868

Abstract

This Paper has as primary objective analyze the actions maked by the official agents in charge for the application of indigenous politics in Rio Grande do Sul between 1834 and 1868. For this analysis was primarily consulted the official documents produced in that time by the Orphan Court, the Indigenous Directory and the Province Presidency, that is found on the Historical Archive of Rio Grande do Sul (AHRGS). The ones generated after 1845 passed by a geographic clip, selecting the files related to the Guarita, Nonoai and Colônia Militar dos Caseros villages.

Searching for subsidy for the proposed analysis the paper presents, as the first chapter, a historical of the Indigenous Matter on Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil since the Portuguese domination to the Brazilian empire.

The second chapter focus on the guidance of the Indigenous Matter on Rio Grande do Sul on the XIX century, realized by the indigenous village formation in the plateau zone from Rio Grande do Sul. In that chapter there is a privilege on th