Banca de DEFESA: PEDRO PINHEIRO DE ARAÚJO JÚNIOR

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STUDENT : PEDRO PINHEIRO DE ARAÚJO JÚNIOR
DATE: 20/08/2025
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Online - Google Meet
TITLE:

THE LANDS OF THE INDIGENOUS VILLAGE OF EXTREMOZ UNDER TWO FACTIONS: POLITICAL DISPUTES IN THE PROCESSES OF INDIGENOUS TERRITORIALIZATION IN RIO GRANDE DO NORTE (1760-1858).

KEY WORDS:

Keywords: History and Spaces. Indigenous History. Vila de Extremoz. Directory of Indians. History of Rio Grande do Norte. Indigenous Protagonism.

PAGES: 582
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: História
SUMMARY:

This thesis analyzes the political performance of indigenous municipal and military agents from Vila de Extremoz do Norte, Captaincy of Rio Grande do Norte, in the early years of the 19th century. This space of political representation was created from the founding of the village, with the institution of the Senate of the Chamber, on May 3, 1760, in the context of the implementation of the Directory of Indians in the Captaincies of the North. The village was built on the site where the Guajiru Mission had previously stood, a missionary space where, from the mid-17th century onwards, native populations of diverse ethnic origins were reterritorialized, that is, subjected to a new territorialization coordinated by the administration of the Catholic Church and the Portuguese Crown. One of the main objectives for the establishment of the Directory of Indians (1759) was the transformation of indigenous people into vassals of the Portuguese monarchy. To this end, mechanisms were created for them to participate in public life in their villages, whether occupying positions in the chambers, receiving military ranks, and finally, “assisting” the settlers with their exploited labor in various activities. Among the exponents of this action, stood out the chief captain of the Indians, Hipólito da Cunha da Assunção, who, due to his diligence in the various spheres of temporal power in that village, as councilor, ordinary judge and director of the Indians, was an important political leadership among the indigenous population in Extremoz, mainly in disputes related to land tenure and compulsory labor. To embark on this investigation, we analyzed a set of administrative sources (letters, requests, royal orders, trades exchanged between the Senate of the Chamber of Extremoz, the governors of the Captaincies of the North, the Board of Justice of the Palace and the Board of Conscience and Orders) and parochial (baptisms, marriages, deaths). With the crossing of sources that we used, through the onomastic method, it was possible to identify that Hipólito da Cunha and other indigenous officials, such as Antônio Dinis Pereira and Ignácio Duarte, filed a complaint with the desembargador of the Judicial District of Paraíba against the “main” residents of Vila de Extremoz in relation to the irregular possession of land belonging to indigenous residents. Finally, the position taken by these characters demonstrates an indigenous protagonism in the captaincy analyzed at the beginning of the 19th century, and this was configured, in the use of spaces of power, whether municipal or military, for the defense of the collective of the native peoples reterritorialized in this place.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externa à Instituição - ANA LUNARA DA SILVA MORAIS - UFCG
Presidente - 2432663 - HELDER ALEXANDRE MEDEIROS DE MACEDO
Externo à Instituição - JOÃO PAULO PEIXTO COSTA - IFPI
Interno - 1879280 - LIGIO JOSE DE OLIVEIRA MAIA
Interno - 1675519 - SEBASTIAO LEAL FERREIRA VARGAS NETTO