The present article recovers and analyzes the context of the implementation of the Royal Letter of May 12th, 1798, responsible for the abolition of the Indian Directorate (1757-1798). Here, we emphasizes the actions and political strategies of the Indians who lived in colonial villages and the impacts these had upon the measures created by the new indigenous legislation of the Portuguese Amazon at the end of 18th century.
Indigenous Population; Indigenist Legislation; Colonial Amazon