Between 1914 and 1916, the Shokleng Indians--previously economically and politically autonomous--were brought into the c.bit of the Brazilian state through a process known as pacification. This paper traces that process through narratives of the Indians and White Men who participated in it. It is argued that pacification is a form of domination, albeit a particularly subtle one, which relies upon the differential interpretation, by the two sides, of the events--principally, the giving of gifts by the White Men--that made up the early encounters. Adrian Cowell's recent film, Decade of Destruction, documents the first peaceful contact established by representatives of the Brazilian government Indian agency (FUNAI) and the Uru-eu-wau-wau tribe of the western Brazilian state of Rondonia between 1980 and 1983. We see the regional context of development, the opening of a highway through this wilderness, the influx of settlers from other parts of Brazil--part of a government-planned colonization program. We see evidence of skirmishes between the Uru-eu-wau-wau and settlers, and the gradual process of pacification through attraction by means of gifts. Cowell's film documents a process that is much more general throughout Brazil. Yet, even as this process brings the last remaining isolated groups into the orbit of the national society, we know almost nothing about how the Indians themselves perceive that process, how their experience differs from that of the FUNAI agents involved in the pacification, how the seemingly identical objective events are reported and made sense of within contrasting cultural paradigms. The present article rectifies some of this imbalance by making available contrasting reports of a specific pacification--that of the Shokleng Indians2 of the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, with specific reference to the 1914-1915 period. At that time, the Shokleng were a semi-nomadic hunting and gathering people, organized into three bands, each consisting of some 400-600 individuals. The individual bands were in turn organized into trekking groups, the number of which varied between two and four. There was constant feuding between bands, but relations within the band were generally peaceful. At the time of the pacification, the Shokleng practiced no agriculture, subsisting instead primarily on the wild game, especially tapirs and peccaries, and on the fruits and nuts, especially Araucaria pine nuts, of the region. They had earlier, like the neighboring and related Kaingang, practiced a part-time agriculture. However, by the latter nineteenth century, they had completely replaced their own agriculture with the raiding of Brazilian settler farms. Even prior to the first peaceful contacts, therefore, Brazilian settlement of the region was having an impact on the traditional Shokleng way of life. URBAN