"Monstruoso systema (...) intrusa e abusiva jurisdicção": Indian's Directory in the colonial administrative agents' discourse (1777-1798)²

This paper aims to show, through reports and correspondence of the colonial administrative officers in the Amazon valley, the discourse about the Indian's Directory, legislation that existed between the years 1757 to 1798. Our purpose was to indicate that the critics made ​​by the representatives of the Crown, more than report breaches of directors, indicated the emergency of power that endangered the project to the metropolitan Amazon valley.

Indians' Directory; Indians politics; power relations