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Btw Before 1829–1872, the territory that would become Santa Catarina (in the South Brazil, the whitest region of Brazil) was practically entirely inhabited by Amerinds, especially Guaranis and Caipiras on the coast, and Jê (Kaingang, Xokleng) in the interior and some Cablocos in farms/cities. The presence of Caboclos was natural and emerged from contact between Amerindians and the Portuguese in the early colonial years, with the Half-Portuguese/Amerindian Cablocos themselves making up the majority of the Bandeirantes. Amerindians dominated the region demographically so much that, like the Bandeirantes, most of the bugreiros (paid killers of Indigenous people) were themselves half-bugres.

Many of the Europeans who established colonies in Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, and São Paulo were not strictly farmers. Most were industrialists in capital cities like Milan, Berlin, and Hamburg. They were shoemakers, blacksmiths, barroom politicians, and corrupt contraband vendors, who had seen a farm for the first time in Brazil. They had never even planted wheat in Germany, let alone cut down araucaria forests and cerrado savannahs and built shacks. Many of them had the help of local country bumpkins who taught them Brazilian agrarian techniques, such as how to confront and kill Indians, etc.

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugreiro