Mendonça Indigenous women: daily life, resistance and the struggle for rights in Rio Grande do Norte
Indigenous Women; Indigenous Rights; Mendonça Women; Mendonça Indigenous Territory; Potiguar People
The present thesis, "Mendonça indigenous women: daily life, resistance and the struggle for rights in Rio Grande do Norte", aims to understand the organizational processes and political struggle for land rights carried out by Mendonça Indigenous women leaders, from João Câmara/RN. It also highlights the ways by which they reconcile this political commitment with their daily lives in the community. Indigenous women are the majority in the Indigenous movement in RN, being also the leadership in the Mendonça Indigenous territory, my native land. These were reasons that motivated me to carry out this ethnographic research in order to understand how the Indigenous women act in the Indigenous movement, based on their own understanding of these processes. The main questions I seek to understand are the forms of organization and the political struggles of these women, by which I seek to know and describe their trajectories, experiences and how Indigenous women leaders act in the fields of struggle and political agendas of the local, regional and national Indigenous movement.