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Until the 1980s, the Anambé never had direct
assistance from the Funai, just as they had never had
from the organ that preceded it, the Serviço de
Proteção do Índio - Service for the
Protection of the Indian - (SPI). They had no Indigenous
Post nor any health assistance. They used wild medicinal
plants and, in serious cases, they asked for the help
of a friend in Mocajuba, who would take the patient to
the hospital. In 1984, Cimi, with the help of the Mocajuba
priest, built a school, whose teacher was a regional married
to an Anambé woman.
Funai's first action in the area was the survey
made for delimiting the Anambé Indigenous Land.
It resulted in the proposal to transfer the Anambé
to the Alto Rio Guamá Indigenous Land, because
of the invasions and the destruction of the former and
because the latter had already been demarcated, was
large and was inhabited by Indians of a similar culture,
such as the Tembé. The Anambé were to
live on the Northwest tip of the Indigenous Land, on
the igarapé Tauari, which empties into
the Guamá River. However, that area had been
invaded, and the Funai did not remove the invaders prior
to the arrival of the Anambé, in 1982. In any
case, the Indians did not like the place, because it
was not very good for hunting and fishing and did not
have good water. In the conflict between the Anambé
and the invaders that followed, two of those died. The
Anambé decided not to stay there and went back
to Cairari that same year.
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