Indigenous People 

  Actually exists in it Vale do Javarí several ethnology with several cultures and an understanding different from our culture. 

In the study of social sciences several concepts of aculturação degree exist. This concept is used here as the knowledge degree that the natives have of our society. They can be classified as: 

• Isolated: Those that live without direct contact with the majority society; 

• Villagers: Those that live at villages, but they are in a process of progressive dependence of the social organization and of the products of consumption of the industrial society; 

• Integrated: When they are incorporate in the national productive system and they exercise your civil laws. They still conserve the lines of your culture and your traditional habits, and they circulate between the villages and the city; 

• Decituados (term suggested by the sociologist of FUNAI - Mafra, J.A.): Those Indians that are in extinction way. They live in precarious conditions, usually in the periphery of the cities or working in farms. These indigenous ones balance between the poverty and the despair of living without identity. Only some still speak your traditional language.   

  The decituados, can be considered as the integrated Indians in the worst possible way. They lost their ethnology reference and doesn't have more the option of returning to the villages. They resemble each other to the beggars that inhabit the streets and among them a high consumption prevails of drunk alcoholic.