With these, there came sicknesses, violent territorial disputes and exploitation of indigenous labor. Since then, the Deni had to wait decades until they got their territorial rights guaranteed, and even then only after a campaign for the demarcation of their lands, supported by several NGOs, which succeeded in getting official demarcation, but which was only completed in August, Even then, they confronted the problems resulting from recurrent invasions for clandestine activities such as fishing and timber extraction.
According to the author, Madi has a strong grammatical and lexical similarity with the Deni and Kulina languages Dixon, Foto: Rodrigo Padua Rodrigues Chaves, For the purposes of analysis, the indigenous land can be divided into two parts: the Western and the Eastern.
The trip takes on the average three days. The trip to the other villages could take up to one or two weeks. There are various roads that interconnect villages and places for hunting, gathering and fishing.
In May, , we recorded that Indians inhabited the indigenous land in houses distributed in nine villages. In the Deni population reached 1. He presented a travel report, in which he mentions and discusses the diverse ethnic groups who inhabited the region. Unfortunately, no proposal for regularizing the land situation was presented, despite the reports which presented very interesting data.
Many years later, a work group was created through decree n. Five technicians were named, who were supposed to complete fieldwork within 30 days. The anthropological report, which was the responsibility of the researcher Therezinha de Barcellos Baumann, was never presented. The work group only produced the descriptive memorial for delimitation [an official document providing the exact coordinates of the area to be delimited] and two pages of information on the number of non-Indian occupants and approximate Deni population.
