page_title: Waimiri Atroari Indigenous Territory
section_title: BR-174
hierarchical_section_title: Waimiri Atroari Indigenous Territory / Development projects / BR-174
caption_attribution_description: w:BR-174 na Reserva Indígena Waimiri-Atroari, Roraima, Brasil.
context_page_description: The Waimiri Atroari Indigenous Territory is an indigenous territory in the states of Amazonas and Roraima, Brazil. There has been a long history of violent conflict between the indigenous Waimiri-Atroari people and newcomers from other parts of Brazil. Since the 1960s there have been many efforts to "civilise" the Waimiri-Atroari to avoid problems with the BR-174 highway, which cuts across the territory, and with tin mines and the huge Balbina Dam. The territory is now considerably smaller, but there have been improvements in living standards.
context_section_description: The Roirama and Amazonas state governments decided to build a highway between Manaus and Caracaraí in the late 1960s, and asked the SPI to speed up pacification of the Indians whose territory the highway would cross.
  The highway project was taken over by the federal government and expanded to become highway BR-174 from Manaus to Boa Vista.
  The task was assigned to an army construction battalion.
  The section of the BR-174 running through the territory was built between 1972 and 1979.
  The army ignored Funai's guidelines for dealing with the Waimiri-Atroari and tensions with the Indians mounted.
  In 2014 the Brazilian Truth Commission published Funai estimates that the Waimiri-Atroari population fell from about 3,000 in 1972 to 1,000 in 1974.
  It appears to have been the goal of the military regime to eliminate the Waimiri-Atroari and other indigenous peoples.
caption: BR-174 in the Waimiri Atroari Indigenous Territory
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