Biblioteca Digital Curt Nimuendajú

Coleção Nicolai

Through the kind permission of the "Serviço de Proteção aos Indios" this Report, written by L. B. Horta Barboza in 1917, is now published by our REVISTA. It deals with the work carried out by the State of São Paulo branch of the Brazilian Indian Service. The notes on the agricultural situation in the Araribá Indian Post are very interesting, and show that besides the sustenance crops the sale of superfluous production reached 10.328$000, a very reasonable sum at that period. With the exception of one single Oti Indian, the remnant of a tribe already extinct at the time, the rest of the Indian population, numbering 231 individuals, were Guarani. Another interesting fact is that this population pulled through a measles epidemic nearly unscathed, which is remarkable when one remembers the lethal effects of this disease among Indians. It also shows the good results of proper medical attention in such cases. In relation to the São Paulo Kaingang, the Report is of inestimable value furnishing data on their pacification; their first contacts with colonists; the installation of the Icatú Post; and the transfer of the Kaingang groups to the new site; the petty animosities among the several groups; the lack of resistance to influenza and measles, etc. The Report tells of the disastrous effects of the measles epidemic of 1916. Decrease in birth rate is also pointed out as being responsible for the rapid reduction of the Kaingang population.

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