Indigenous socio-cultural and territorial processes in Ceara-Mirim/RN
Indigenous northeasterners; Resistance; Ethnogenesis; Ceará-Mirim.
The historiography of Brazil's indigenous populations is always marked by a Eurocentric colonizing vision, which necessarily implies a movement of conquest and exploitation, the result of which is the affirmation of the extinction of these societies or the assimilation of the indigenous into the regional culture, creating, in the latter hypothesis, the figure of the caboclo or the sertanejo. This constant lack of elements that, taken together, end up not providing information about a past that has not been recorded in history books or other literature, attempts to contradict the existence of a people who lived here and were forced to deny their own existence in order to maintain their survival. This research aims to address the indigenous issue in a northeastern municipality based on discussions involving territorialization, the process of invisibilization over the centuries, ethnicity and the struggle for rights. In this way, the aim is to investigate indigenous resistance in communities located in the municipality of Ceara-Mirim/RN (Aningas, Rio dos Indios, Lagoa Grande and Ponta do Mato), using the analysis of their history, the social relations developed there and the form of socio-political organization articulated with the demands. Given the context of the demands made by these communities, the aim is to understand how the process of ethnic-political organization of the indigenous people has been taking place, and its possible constructions, with a view to strengthening ethnic identity.