INDONES AND THE PORTUGUESE COLONIZATION AT THE COLONY'S MOST EXTREME POINT: THE RIO BRANCO.

Abstract

This article is the result of the research and the reflections made from the elaboration of a doctoral thesis defended at the Federal University of Pernambuco in 2003, and seeks to contribute to the creation of a historiography of the North region. The analysis of several documents that point out the indigenous populations, especially the Macuxis and the Yapixanas, as important actors in the construction and permanence of the Portuguese colonization project in one of the most extreme points of the country, the Branco river.

Keywords

• macuxis
• yapixanas
• Amazon Indians