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on this group is vague. Funai's indigenist Elimilton Correia
de Alencar was sent to the city of Santana do Capim/Paragominas,
in the State of Pará, in October of 1990 in order
to try to find the Amanayé Indians, with whom there
had been no official contacts since the 1940s. The only
relatively recent record of their presence was made in
1984 by the Sucam (Superintendência da Campanha
de Saúde Pública - Superintendence of the
Campaign for Public Health), which had registered the
existence of four families in the locality of Barreirinha,
on the right bank of the Capim River. It was there that,
towards the end of October 1990 that Alencar found the
Amanayé. The area traditionally occupied by these
Indians is the Upper Capim River, between the igarapés
Ararandeua and Surubiju, where, in 1945, an Amanayé
Reservation was created. The present Amanayé, however,
live outside of it.
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| Written after a text published in
the series Povos Indígenas no Brasil, number
8 - Sudeste do Pará (Tocantins); and report by
Elimilton Correia de Alencar, 4ª Suer - Funai,
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