One of the difficult problems that has long faced the Brazilian Government is how to deal justly with hostile Indians. Much of the richest land in the great interior State of Matto Grosso is inhabited by aboriginal isolationists. The Government wants the land settled; the aborigines do not. The Brazilian Army could easily wipe them out, but the Government's policy of race equality precludes violent methods.
The Indians themselves feel no such inhibitions. Most ferocious are the Chavantes, a tribe of husky, dark men who hold a fertile area directly in the path of projected settlement. They are marvelous shots...
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