Excerpt from The Indigenous Peoples of Brazil: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session; July 14, 1993 The possibility of the end of the State's patronage of the Indians cannot happen without the guarantee of minimal conditions of maintenance of the traditions and culture of each tribe, but at the same time should support an advance to a more equal relationship between the Indians and other communities. In these two examples, one can feel the complexities of the In dian situation in Brazil at the moment when the Congress is debat ing a new Indian statute which may be approved this fall and thereafter will govern all legal aspects of Indian life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.