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Data from FUNAI indicate that in 1999 the total Kadiwéu
population under jurisdiction of the Bodoquena Indigenous
Post (covering the Bodoquena and Campina villages and
based at the former village) was 1,041 people. The population
administered by the São João Indigenous
Post, which covers the São João and Tomázia
villages, now numbers 551 people according to the same
source. It should be noted that, as mentioned above, the
village of São João is mainly inhabited
by Terêna and Kinikináo Indians. As a result,
the total population of 1,592 corresponds to the Indians
of all three of these ethnic groups who inhabit the Kadiwéu
Indigenous Territory and also includes the Kadiwéu
who live outside it but coming from these villages. Results
from a recent non-FUNAI census of the Kadiwéu population
have not been included, since it makes no separation between
the ethnic groups at the São João Indigenous
Post, which renders calculation of the total Kadiwéu
population impossible. In 1992, during the period of Mônica
Thereza Pechincha's research, 633 Kadiwéu lived
in Bodoquena village, 39 at Campina village, 60 at Tomázia
village and 67 at other locations within the Indigenous
Territory, in addition to São João village
which at the time numbered 170 inhabitants. For the purposes
of observing demographic growth, I also present data from
1995, collated at the Campo Grande Regional Administration
of FUNAI, which indicate the population of the Bodoquena
Indigenous Post to be 951, and the São João
Indigenous Post to be 388. |
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01:: Kadiwéu retake possession of the Santo
Onofre farmstead, located on their lands, and take hostages.
photo: O Globo news agency, 1985
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