RIO DE JANEIRO — When the Portuguese fleet led by Pedro Álvares Cabral landed in Brazil in 1500, Pero Vaz de Caminha, a knight serving as the secretary to the royal expedition, wrote a detailed official report to the sovereign dated May 1 of that year. Caminha’s report was considered one of the only three … Continue reading ‘I am Indigenous, not pardo’: Push for self-declaration in Brazil’s census