The backwoodsmen are, in part of, the same as Euclides da Cunha describes. They are hard-working men, who work honestly as any other men from other societies. They work a lot or more than the others because the land is very inhospitable where they survive.
They need help, maybe financial help because they know how to transform unbelievable things into treasures.

They need help, maybe financial help because they know how to transform unbelievable things in treasures.
This second part presents projects about the first inhabitants, the strong women, backwoodsmen, the religious people and the biggest representative of Pernambuco's music. Olhai os Indios do Sertão tells us what "White" men, that hold a "thing" called wisdom, is doing against their descended until now. The center of Fabulous Women Project is the legendary Maria Déia, the Maria Bonita, to pay a tribute to the bravery, the courage and predestined midwives, carpideiras and benzedeiras. The hopeless in some men make backwoodsmen look for help from father Cícero, known as the saviour of poor and for other a unreliable character as it could be seen in The priest of Desperate People. Baião's King is a tribute to Luiz Gonzaga´s birth. According to the authors the Baião's king tells, from heaven, the trajectory, nuances and feat of a man that brings, through his songs, hope to people who thought that everything was lost.

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