Leolinda Daltro: her double journey to meeting indigenous peoples in central Brazil (1896-1900)

ABSTRACT

It was an unusual opportunity that provided to the bahian educator Leolinda Daltro the contact with a Xerente indigenous group, when visiting Rio de Janeiro. Identified with the mission of educating them, she decided to accompany them on their return - making double journey - to the central Brazil region. In her work Da catechese dos indios no Brasil (1920) it can be seen that the mass of documents is inseparable from the society that produced it. Our intention was to understand the plurality of this activity and her articulation with an extensive network that she built and that also constituted and involved it.

Keywords:
Leolinda Daltro; double journey; secular mission; indigenous cause; central Brazil