O jesuíta, o indígena e o colono na Amazônia seiscentista: um estudo de três cartas Ânuas do Padre João Felipe Bettendorff nos anos de 1671 e 1674

Abstract

This paper aims to present the relationship that different subjects built during the colonial period, highlighting the interaction between religious missionaries, settlers, and indigenous people. Taking into account, when we talk about religious missions in colonial Brazil that the different subjects disposed of otherness with the intention of reaching their goals, building relationships among themselves that were much more complex than the ones that built in the colonial period. To achieve their goals, building relationships among themselves that were much more complex than the simple obedience to the Portuguese crown and that deserves to highlight. From the analysis of annual letters written by the priest João Felipe Bettendorff, in the years 1671 and 1674, while he was Superior of the Jesuit Mission in the Amazon. It verified that the relationship between the individuals participating in the colonization process revolved around the access to indigenous labor, and that defined the alliances and power relations where each group put into practice their influences to have access to what they wanted.