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In 1940 the Anambé numbered 60 individuals.
But their population dwindled, due to the fact that
many women married regionals and moved away and because
of successive epidemics of measles. But from the mid-1960s
on the Anambé population started to recover;
besides, inter-ethnic marriages began to attract non-Indian
spouses to the Indigenous Land. Surveys carried out
in 1983 and 1984 respectively by the Conselho Indigenista
Missionário - Missionary Indigenist Council -
(Cimi) and the Fundação Nacional do Índio
- National Foundation for the Indian - (Funai), the
official organ for Indian policy, differ, perhaps due
to the great mobility of the population (for example,
between April and December of 1982, 12 Anambé
families, a total of 30 to 35 people, were transfered
to the Alto Rio Guamá
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Indigenous Land and returned from there to their
region of origin). According to the Cimi, there were then
61 people living in the Anambé Indigenous Land,
between Indians and non-Indians, and 11 Indians scattered
in the vicinity and in towns in the area. For the Funai,
however, there were 20 Anambé in the Indigenous
Land (plus 12 non-Indians); in the vicinity there were
4 Anambé married with non-Indians, in addition
to 8 members of their families - most probably children
of those inter-ethnic unions -, which at the time were
about to move into the Indigenous Land; there were also
two Anambé women living in Mocajuba, plus the son
of an Anambé woman, besides an Anambé man
who worked for the Funai in Itaituba, and others scattered
along the Cairari and Moju rivers. Neither of these surveys
were conclusive about the actual number of Anambé.
Data by Funai from 1996 give a total of 118 inhabitants
of the Anambé Indigenous Land, without distinguishing
Indians and non-Indians. |
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