Supysáua: A Documentary Report on the Conditions of Indian Peoples in Brazil
Description
- Creators
- Indigena, Author
- American Friends of Brazil, Author
- Media Type
- Text
- Image
- Item Type
- Documents
- Description
- Seven items: 1) Inside Front Cover; 2) title page with publishing information; 3) information page on Indigena and American Friends of Brazil; 4) contents page; 5) Introduction with image; 6) information page on Indigenous groups; and 7) information page on Trans-Amazonic road system.
1) The Inside Front Cover contains a definition of the word "Supysáua" and offers a brief explanation for the impetus of the report.
2) Title page details publishing information and the printing date of the report.
3) The information page describes the goals of Indigena and American Friends of Brazil, the two organizations that compiled and published the information in this report.
4) The Contents page outlines the eight sections of the report: 1. Introduction; (2) Genocide; (3) Bishops' Document; (4) Anthropologists' Document; (5) The Rape of Indian Territory; (6) Bibliography; (7) Support Organizations for Indigenous Rights; (8) Indigenous Groups.
5) The introduction relates how the genocide of Indigenous peoples in Brazil continues at the hands of FUNAI, the military government's National Indian Foundation that was supposed to protect Indigenous peoples through so-called "development projects" in mining and agriculture.
6) "Brazil: Indian Groups": A list of 118 Indigenous groups in Brazil in alphabetical order.
7) "Brazil: Indian Groups, Culture Areas, and Trans-Amazonic road System": A map of eleven Indigenous culture areas and six road systems that traverse the Amazon (1974). - Publisher
- Indigena; American Friends of Brazil
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley, CA
- Pagination
- Inner Front Cover, 1-3, 5-8, 64-65
- Date of Original
- Nov 1974
- Date Of Event
- 1900-1974
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- LAWG Country Files, CF-BRA-03, Box 8, Folder Brazil - Human Rights - Native Peoples 1973-1975
- Collection
- LAWG
- Language of Item
- English
- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian law. No restrictions on use.
- Recommended Citation
- Supysáua: A Documentary Report on the Conditions of Indian Peoples in Brazil (November 1974), Inside Cover Page, 1-8, 64-65.
- Location of Original
- LAWG Country Files, CF-BRA-03, Box 8, Folder Brazil - Human Rights - Native Peoples 1973-1975
