SUS 224 Chapter Notes - Chapter 0: Kayapo People, Cash Crop, Enfilade And Defilade
12 Feb 2021
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The guy in charge of the gorotire post from the indian protection service denied them entry because their entry papers didn"t address him by name. The chief of the regional inspectorate of the spi had been exhorting the gorotire kayapo to collect brazil nuts (a valuable cash crop). The inspector would sell the nuts and return the proceeds to the kayapo in the form of manufactured goods like guns and ammo, clothes, cookware, beads, etc. But the kayapo had actually been given very little of these goods. The kayapo chiefs had actually been appointed by the spi and were kept happy by the. Spi periodically bringing them goods and taking them on trips by plane. The gorotire put up with the arrangements with the spi that degraded and exploited them. 1938: first peaceful contact between gorotire and regional brazilian population. Over 800 of them split off from a larger community, and over 700 died due to disease and starvation.
