#IndigenousTribes

Organizations (3)

• FUNAI FUNAI (Fundacao Nacional do Indio) replaced the scandal-ridden SPI in 1967 under the Brazilian military dictatorship and was placed under military supervision, serving as the instrument through which the post-1964 regime managed, surveilled, and in many cases destroyed indigenous communities standing in the path of Amazon development projects.
• SPI The Servico de Protecao aos Indios (SPI), Brazil's indigenous affairs agency from 1910 to 1967, was abolished after Attorney General Jader Figueiredo's investigation documented systematic murder, slavery, land theft, and deliberate disease introduction by its personnel, and was replaced by the military-supervised FUNAI.
• Summer Institute of Linguistics The secular-branded twin of Wycliffe Bible Translators, operating under government contracts to document indigenous languages while serving as a vehicle for tribal pacification, intelligence gathering, and US corporate penetration of the Amazon basin.