Southern Jê forest hunters of the upper Itajaí valley in Santa Catarina, mobile families who slept under bark shelters and harvested the araucaria pine deep in the coastal mountains.
Hunted by state-sanctioned bugreiro militias after 1879, the Xokleng were 'pacified' by the SPI agent Hoerhann in 1914, after which epidemics killed roughly two-thirds of them; ~2,000 survivors hold the Ibirama–Laklãnõ land on the Hercílio river today.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Xokleng (Laklãnõ) — the shape you scrub through changes in 380 BC · 1879 · 1914.
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.