ABSTRACT
This chapter explores postcolonial research methodologies, and establishes a public archaeology project in an indigenous area in northern Brazil and sought to implement many of the kinds of goals that were under discussion at the Fourth World Archaeological Congress (WAC4). It describes the confrontation of practices in an indigenous people's reservation known as the rea Indgena do Ua or Ua Indian Reservation seems, in the Brazilian state of Amap. Public archaeology constitutes a different approach to the production of knowledge. The understanding of the impact of European colonization on Amerindian precolonial patterns of sociopolitical organization is one of the most important topics of contemporary Amazonian archaeology. Relations between Palikur and Galibi-Marworno are in some respects strained, as the Arawak-Carib wars that ended in the seventeenth century played a significant role in the decimation of both groups. The constant fear of many Palikur that Brazilians were going to come and take their lands made some doubly suspicious.
