Padres missionários da colônia de São Pedro do Pindaré: uma pesquisa do trabalho na colônia através das suas correspondências (1841 - 1847)

Abstract

The goal of this job will be to investigate the correspondence of the missionary priests who passed through the colony of St. Pedro of Pindaré, which are based on requests, requirements and information. The Colony's missionary priests requested groceries, as dressing for the indians who walked naked, transport when you needed to enter the woods or go to some town nearby, housing for the missionary, food, tools for roasts, tools for Indians, among other things. The informative content of the correspondence is located on baptism maps, evidenceing the quantitative of Indians baptized in the colony, maps of weddings and deaths. Informing yet about the floods of the Pindar River that came to cover the houses causing a great destruction, about the abandoning of the colony, the escape of Indians, their diseases and their displeasures as the administration of the dicta colony. These correspondences covers several significant contents to understand the story of the dictation of the colony, their assumptions, their ecclesiastical and structural organization through the correspondences. All this within the context of autonomy of the Maranhon Province in promulgation and perform acts regarding Indians living in their territories. That way, we're gonna promote a missionary administration analysis through the correspondence of the Missionary Fathers who passed through the Pedaré Colony, sent to the President of the Maranhon Province in Brazil while empire. Available at the Public Archive of the State of Maranhão (PASM).