Introduction : recovering Brazil's Indigenous pasts / Hal Langfur -- The Society of Jesus and the first aldeias of Brazil / Alida C. Metcalf -- Land and economic resources of Indigenous aldeias in Rio de Janeiro : conflicts and negotiations, seventeenth to nineteenth centuries / Maria Regina Celestino de Almeida -- Colonial intrusions and the transformation of native society in the Amazon Valley, 1500-1800 / Neil L. Whitehead -- The Amazonian native nobility in late-colonial Pará / Barbara A. Sommer -- Indian autonomy and slavery in the forests and towns of colonial Minas Gerais / Hal Langfur and Maria Leônia Chaves de Resende -- Catechism and capitalism : imperial Indigenous policy on a Brazilian frontier, 1808-1845 / Judy Bieber -- Catechism and captivity : Indian policy in Goiás, 1780-1889 / Mary Karasch -- Indigenous resistance in central Brazil, 1770-1890 / Mary Karasch and David McCreery
Summary
This volume is a significant contribution to understanding the ways Brazil's native peoples shaped their own histories
