Povoações indígenas e roças do comum na fronteira entre o Pará e o Maranhão (1790- 1833)

Abstract

This article intends to discuss the faces of the organization, agricultural production and conflicts occurred inside native settlements located near the Turiaçu river, on the border between Pará and Maranhão, and the motives and interests that led the governor of captain of Pará Francisco de Souza Coutinho to propose a new project of civilization of the indigenous populations that lived in the settlements and the measures taken since the publication of the Régia Charter enacted in 1798 that foresaw the self government of the indigenous populations and put an end to the spaces and goods by the Directory. As well as realizing the ramifications of the application of the Royal Charter at the beginning of the 19th that led to new ways and meanings to the native settlements and its common goods.