The Yanoama in Brazil 1979

This paper is intended to first, report on the very critical situation of the Yanoama Indians in north Brazil who have been affected by the construction of the Perimetral Norte highway; second, to make public the events that led to the abrupt end of the "Yanoama Project", a plan designed by an anthropologist to assist the Yanoama Indians in Brazil, as well as describe the activities of the Project in that area; and third, to explore certain aspects touched upon in a recently published document (Migliazza 1978) about Indian groups in the Brazilian Territory of Roraima, by focussing on some crucial points mentioned in that document and also by providing recent information about the official Indian Policy and how it is affecting the Yanoama in that country.