The Macro-Jê 'Botocudo', named for the wooden discs in their lips and ears, who held the Atlantic forest of the Rio Doce and Mucuri and raided the sugar coast and gold roads for three centuries from the deep woods.
Targeted by Dom João's royal 'just war' of 1808 and cleared with gunfire and smallpox-laced gifts through the 1800s; reduced to remnants, their Krenak descendants endure today on a small land on the Rio Doce near Resplendor in Minas Gerais.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Aimoré (Botocudo / Krenak) — the shape you scrub through changes in 1535 · 1808 · 1901.
An accessible survey of the pre- and post-contact Americas that conveys the pre-conquest complexity and colonial devastation of Amazonian and Brazilian indigenous peoples.
Shelton Davis's classic Cambridge study of twentieth-century Brazilian development policy and its devastating impact on Indigenous peoples such as the Krenak, Kaingang, and Karaja.