Indigenous and indigenist policy in the captaincy of São Paulo under government of Morgado de Mateus (1765-1775).

• Grant number: 23/12329-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Effective date (Start): May 01, 2024
• Effective date (End): December 31, 2024
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - History of Brazil
• Principal Investigator: Denise Aparecida Soares de Moura
• Grantee: Luiza Paula Monteiro Mota
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais (FCHS). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Franca. Franca , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research project aims to verify to what extent the indigenous policy may have been responsible for shaping the indigenist policy of the captaincy of São Paulo during the period of government of Captain General D. Luis Antonio de Souza Botelho Mourão, the 4th Morgado de Mateus, correspondent to the years 1765 to 1775. Preliminary research has shown that in the captaincy of São Paulo, during the government of D. Luis Antonio, a mapping policy was used in link to a strategy of forming couples and integrating so-called "tame" Indians to not meek. The questions that remain are which indigenous groups inhabited the captaincy of São Paulo during this period, how they were socially organized and how to define more detailly the indigenist policy of this governor in relation to the document of the Directory of Indians and the existing indigenous policy in the region. This investigation will be carried out through official documents produced by the governor and will make use of an interpretation against the grain of indigenous policy guided by the most recent historiography.