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Article: The Enawene of Brazil and education.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- December 1, 2004
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THE history of contact between the indigenous peoples of Brazil and mainstream Brazilian society has been a tale of disaster. Since the Portuguese colonists first sent expeditions into the interior to seize land and slaves for the sugar mills to the more recent but equally damaging government policy of 'integration', whole populations have been decimated by disease, de-cultured and in many areas made landless. But for the Enawene Nawe the story has been different.
The Enawene Nawe are a semi-isolated, indigenous people who live together in one large village in the 'transitional' region between the Amazonian rain forest and the savannah lands in the west of the ...