Brazil's Indian Protection Service (Serviço de Proteção ao Índio, abbreviated as SPI) was a government agency created to administer indigenous affairs. It was created by President Nilo Peçanha in 1910 in response to pressure from Marshal Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon[1] and international accusations of indigenous genocide.[2] It was the first federal agency in Brazil to focus on the protection of indigenous peoples from violence and persecution.[1]
- ^ a b Diacon, Todd A. (2004). Stringing together a nation : Candido Mariano da Silva Rondon and the construction of a modern Brazil, 1906-1930. Durham: Duke University Press. p. 95. ISBN 0822332108. OCLC 52429358.
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