Indígenas, migrantes e imigrantes no interior da província do Espírito Santo

Abstract

Anchored in sources of different kinds such as oral reports, letters and reports from authorities and texts produced by memorialists, this essay proposes a review of the process in which European immigrants and migrants settled in the interior of the Province of Espírito Santo between the second half of 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, showing that representations such as the demographic void cannot be sustained when confronted with multiple sources that reveal a territory dominated by different indigenous peoples who, in that scenario of discontinuities and radical changes in search of preserving their interests, transformed themselves more than they were transformed and their multiple forms of insertion or resistance to this process.