Sepé Tiaraju
After 250 years of the date of his death he still remains a very influential figure in the popular imagination and a folk saint in Rio Grande do Sul.[1] This conflict in South America resulted from the land demarcations established by the European powers with the Tratado de Madrid (1750).After one hundred and fifty years living a unique communal life, neither the prospect of returning to the forests nor moving to another place were considered as options by most mission Guaranis.The Christianized Guarani population residing in the Jesuit missions (called missões or reduções, in Portuguese), that is in Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina combined, is estimated to have numbered approximately eighty thousand at the start of the conflict.The expression and battle cry Esta terra tem dono!, sometimes quoted in Guarani Co ivi oguerecó iara ("This land has owners!"