The gifts and the attraction of Indians at the fraternity post on the western border of the SPI

Abstract

The SPI — Service of Protection to the Indians — was created in order to take action to the Indians of Brazil to mediate the existing conflicts between indigenous groups the and non-indians; and also to facilitate the colonization among the indians, from the beginning of XX century, in 1910. Into this historical-social context, the aim is to outline a historical ethnography through the microanalysis of the SPP's documentation, setting light in the contact relations produced by means of gifts and the reaction of the Indians, in this case, the Umutina people from the state of Mato Grosso — West Frontier, in the period between 1910 and 1923.