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Available historical information indicate that in
the last decades of the 19th Century there were some 10,000
Bororo. However, within a few years many of them died
in consequence of the negative effects of contact, such
as wars, epidemics and famines. The picture was so discouraging
that anthropologist Darcy Ribeiro (Os Índios e
a Civilização, Petrópolis, Vozes,1970:293),
when analyzing the 1932 Census, argued that the high degree
of vulnerability of the Bororo was an indication that
they were in the last stages of the extinction process.
However, from the 1970s on, population growth has been
taking place, and the 626 individuals registered by Father
Uchoa em 1979 are now 1,024. Current demographic data
register the following distribution of the Bororo population,
by area and by river basin:
| INDIGENOUS
LAND |
VILLAGE |
POPULATION
(1997) |
| TI
MERURI |
Meruri
Garças |
328
61 |
| TI
SANGRADOURO (Xavante) |
"Morada
Bororo" (occupied by the Xavante, this area
is not recognized as bororo) |
63 |
| ARAGUAIA
RIVER BASIN |
|
452 |
| TI
JARUDORI |
(Indigenous
Area totally occupied by the town of Jarudore) |
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| TI
TADARIMANA |
Tadariamana;
Pobori; Paulista; Praião; Jurigue |
173 |
| TI
TERESA CRISTINA |
Córrego
Grande
Piebaga |
254
66 |
| TI
PERIGARA |
Perigara |
79 |
| São
Lourenço River Basin |
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572 |
TOTAL
POPULATION |
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1.024 |
Source : Missão Salesiana,
1997 and Saúde/Funai/ADR Rondonópolis,
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01:: Old Mário and his grandson in the village
of Meruri.
photo: Sylvia Caiuby Novaes, 1977
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