The excerpt from the poem Os timbiras, by Gonçalves Dias, presents the Indian as a representative of the American people and highlights the destruc...

The excerpt from the poem Os timbiras, by Gonçalves Dias, presents the Indian as a representative of the American people and highlights the destructive sense of contact between Indians and Europeans in Portuguese America. Regarding this contact, it is known that

( ) A cultural unity allowed the articulation of forms of resistance, among the various tribes, as a way of containing the advance of colonization over indigenous lands.
( ) The Indian was present in European imagination, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, through travel reports and the elaboration of utopias that created the myth of the good savage.
( ) The domination of the forest, the knowledge of fauna and flora, the food regime formed a set of knowledge that were incorporated by the colonizers.
( ) In the nineteenth century, the Indian dominated the imagination of our artists, becoming a myth in the work of romantic writers, such as José de Alencar and Gonçalves Dias.
Identifying him as a symbol of nationality, such writers left aside, almost always, the destructive sense of European conquest.