De Taperaguá à Aldeia: conflitos e esbulhos nas terras do antigo Aldeamento de Água Azeda – SE (Décadas de 1930 e 1970)

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the relationship of conflict between the owners of the farm Escurial and the villagers Aldeia, São Cristovão-SE, in different moments of the twentieth century, taking into account the events of village during the colonial period, imperial and republican to be made to understand the end of the speech that identified them as indigenous, it is not possible away with the vestiges of indigenous culture in the village lands. The Aldeia town, while dwelling Indians was entitled in chronological space of the nineteenth century as Aldeia de Nossa Senhora da Fé e Aldeia de Água Azeda, being considered extinct in 1853 with the introduction of Decree No. 1139, April 06, extinguished in an official manner the existence of villages ending the Department of Indian and assistance obligations to indigenous populations in Sergipe. Since then, a documentary silencing was seen, reappearing in 1933 when Anacleto José Santana and his companions seeking legitimacy and exploitation of the lands of the extinct village, culminating in the establishment of village land as a vacant, or the Sergipe State domain. A new conflict began in 1972 when the owners of the Escurial Farm cause a fire in the huts of the village residents, resulting in a new judicial conflict that culminated in the arrest warrant of the resort of Baron's descendants and end of the speech residents as from the indigenous ethnic group.