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This video traces the resistance and strategy of the Parakatêjê (Gavião) during their 25-year struggle to maintain autonomy in the face of huge development projects in the south of Pará From their first disastrous contact with whites in the 1950s, to their current negotiations with government power...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Carelli, Vincent
Other Authors:	Hoops, Frieda
Format:	Video
Language:	English
Published:	Watertown, Mass. : Documentary Educational Resources, 1988.
Series:	Ethnographic video online.
Subjects:	Gaviãoes Indians > Social life and customs. Documentary. Encoded moving images. Documentary films. Ethnographic films. Nonfiction films. Documentaires. Films autres que de fiction. Films ethnographiques.
Online Access:	Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)

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Summary:	This video traces the resistance and strategy of the Parakatêjê (Gavião) during their 25-year struggle to maintain autonomy in the face of huge development projects in the south of Pará From their first disastrous contact with whites in the 1950s, to their current negotiations with government power companies, the video shows how the Gaviao have struggled to reclaim their forest land from developers and agricultural settlers.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (27 min.)
Production Credits:	Director, Victor Carelli.