Aboriginal Population

They were many different peoples who if distribuam all for the territory. That by an mistake, they had been identified as ' ' ndios' '. Baby clothes might disagree with that approach. Today this population is of only 734 a thousand inhabitants, that is, 0.4% of the total population of Brazil. It fits to clarify that this data to-somente consider those aboriginals, who vivemem villages, having estimates of that, beyond these, has outside between 100 and 190 a thousand living of aboriginal lands, also in urban areas. Most of this population is distributed for thousand of villages, situated in the interior of 582 aboriginal lands, of north the south of the domestic territory (where they are). The aboriginal population occupies area that almost corresponds to 11% of the domestic territory According to anthropologist Darcy Ribeiro, as resulted of a research ordered for UNESCO, regarding indians and whites in Brazil? 87 aboriginal groups had left to exist between 1900 and 1957.

The incorporation of the indian to the Brazilian society made with that these lost its cultural peculiarities. The settling process took to the extinguishing many aboriginal societies that lived in the dominated territory, either for action of the weapons, either in result I infect of it for illnesses brought of the distant countries, or, still, for the application of politics aiming at to ' ' assimilao' ' of the indians to the new implanted society, with strong European influence. Numbers that serve to give to an idea of the immense amount of people and entire aboriginal societies exterminadas throughout these 500 years, as resulted of a process of settling based on the use of the force, by means of the wars and of the politics of assimilation and the process of aculturao that which occurs (- u) in the interchange of relations with the civilized world (prevail in the relations). Maranhense panorama of the Aboriginal Population In the Maranho approximately exists 16 aboriginal areas inhabited by 19,000 pertaining people the 8 peoples.

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