Um rio e suas gentes: ocupação e conflitos nas margens do rio Turiaçu na fronteira entre Pará e Maranhão (1790-1824)

Abstract

The objective that dissertation is discusses the process of occupation in the region of Turiaçu on the frontier between Pará and Maranhão, in the period 1790 to 1824. Initially this study recovers the efforts colonizers of the Portuguese administration of D. Francisco de Souza Coutinho, illustrated Governor of the Province of Pará. With him were intensified the cession of land and forms of control. Roads were opened, changed locations of place or function and indigenous peoples displaced and rearranged. Legally, the Turiaçu region was occupied through donation of land from the concession and confirmation of letters of allotments still in middle of century XVIII. Ho we ver there were alsoo ther forms of occupation and organizations developed by in dians, blacks and poor white men. This study analyzes the multiple conflicts: social, territorial and identity occurred between the various populations that are concentrated in the region, especially in the final year sof the colonial period to independence and adherence of the Grand Para her.