6 - Indians and the frontier

Summary

Literature on Brazilian Indians is far richer for the sixteenth than for Subsequent centuries. On contemporary authors and secondary literature, see essay I:5.

On the west and the south in the seventeenth century, the fundamental study, although sometimes confusing, is Afonso d’Escragnolle Taunay, História geral das bandeiras paulistas, II vols. (São Paulo, 1924–50). The majority of documents about bandeirante–Jesuit conflict are in the seven volumes edited by Jaime Cortesão and Hélio Vianna, Manuscriptos da Coleção De Angelis (Rio de Janeiro, 1951–70), and in Jaime Cortesão, Rapôso Tavares a formação territorial do Brasil (Rio de Janeiro, 1958) and Introdução a histōria da bandeiras, 2 vols. (Lisbon, 1964). See also Alfredo Ellis Júnior, Meio século de bandeirismo (São Paulo, 1948), José de Alcântara Machado, Vida e morte do bandeirante (S´o Paulo, 1943), and the works of Sérgio Buarque de Holanda. Many key sources have been translated in Richard M. Morse (ed.), The Bandeirantes: The Historical Role of the Brazilian Pathfinders (New York, 1965). There is contemporary information on the bandeirantes in Pedro Tacques de Almeida Paes Leme, Nobiliarchia Paulistana and Historia da Capitânia de S. Vicente (1772) and in collections of documents such as: Actas da Câmara Municipal de S. Paulo (São Paulo, 1914–), Inventários e testamentos (São Paulo, 1920–) and the large but disorganized Documentos interessantes para a história e costumes de S´o Paulo, 86 vols. (São Paulo, 1894–1961). Aurélio Porto, História das missóes orientais do Uruguai (Rio de Janeiro, 1943) is important, and the history of the Jesuits’ Paraguayan missions is documented in Nicolau del Techo, S.J., Historia de la provincia del Paraguay (Liége, 1673), José S´nchez Labrador, S.J., El Paraguay católico (1770), 3 vols. (Buenos Aires, 1910–17), and Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, S.J., Conquista espiritual … en las provincias del Paraguay, Paraná, Uruguay y Ta pi (Madrid, 1639), and, among modern accounts, Pablo Pastells, S.J., Historia de la Compañia de Jesús en la provincia del Paraguay, 8 vols. (Madrid, 1912–59), Magnus Mörner, The Political and Economic Activities of the Jesuits in the La Plata Region (Stockholm, 1953), and Guillermo Fúrlong, Misiones y sus pueblos de guaraníes (Buenos Aires, 1962).