Geography Reference
In-Depth Information
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This is what the history and life of the Pankararu people is like.
Dimas Joaquim do Nascimento. Pankararu school teacher in São Paulo.
Peoples live within, the Guarani commit themselves to its transformation in their
map-making activities.
The estimated 1,500 Pankararu individuals currently living in the state of São
Paulo are situated primarily in the Favela Real Parque, a shantytown located inside
the limits of São Paulo City. More precisely, Favela Real Parque is inside the
Morumbi district - an upscale neighborhood known for its wealthy mansions and
beautiful parks, as well as the city's magnificent governor's palace. “Real Parque”
or Royal Park is an ironic name for this favela, whose inhabitants occupy the very
lowest rung of the economic ladder. The Pankararu do not even appear in São
Paulo's state or national censuses as an Indigenous community, much like many
other invisible native populations living in poverty in urban ghettos. Morumbi, an
otherwise classy district, supplies hoards of mostly underemployed construction
workers and household servants for the local rich.
In the early 1940s, the Pankararu started migrating from their ancestral
Indigenous lands in Pernambuco, located in the impoverished and drought-stricken
Brazilian Northeast, to greater metropolitan areas, such as São Paulo City. Most
Pankararu men started working in the deforestation business, cutting down trees
that gave way to highways, railroads, cattle ranches, sugar-cane and coffee fields,
displacing the Guarani, Terena, Kaingang and other ancestral populations from
their traditional lands. Pankararu men soon sent for their wives up north, who now
work mostly as janitors and nannies for private companies and wealthy families.
present at the teacher-training workshop at Cajamar, now struggle to find jobs
in the construction business, and as security guards for private businesses and
individual households, earning the minimum salary. For domestic and construction
workers, the Brazilian minimum salary in April 2014 was R$ 810
reais
per month
,
approximately US $ 355 dollars.
On July 26, 1994, the newspaper “Notícias Populares de São Paulo” (Popular
News of São Paulo) opened the first page of its “Popular News Duty” section
with the headline “Indian eliminated in the slum - Fled the tribe to die in São
Paulo.” In addition to the sensationalist headline, the photo of the bloody body
