Identidade indígena Katokinn em Pariconha, Alagoas

Abstract

The cultural identity of indigenous peoples in Brazil has historically been marked by usurpation, exploitation, violence and processes of deterritorialization that forced them to adapt to different customs, beliefs and traditions. The indigenous person who is absent from their forestry status is deculturated and this weakens their cultural identity. Since colonial Brazil and the political regimes that followed the empire, indigenous villagers began to suffer persecution or live in spaces of identity re-elaboration. The cultural identity of a people is marked by the predominance and transmission between generations of their culture, beliefs, values and customs, as well as their religion, mode of survival and conservation of their historical, cultural and economic heritage. The reality of the weakening of the Katokinn indigenous identity since the lands of Pernambuco is the object of this study that discusses the history of these indigenous people until they arrived in the Sertão Alagoano; their deposition of their territory gave the Pankararu ethnic group in Pernambuco, driving them to exodus to micro-regions close to the São Francisco River, in Northeast Brazil. The research in this study finds that the Katokinn have historically suffered socioeconomic, cultural and religious transformations that have briefly affected their identity and culture. In this aspect, the question arises as to how and what sociocultural changes occurred among the Katokinn, affecting their sociocultural and historical identity? The methodological result of field research, this study brings together information from exploratory interviews with the Katokinn people in Pariconha, and the objective was to understand the generating aspects of the and identity transformations that occurred among these indigenous people in Pariconha, Alagoas. The research resulted in brief conclusions about the historicity of the Katokinn located in Pariconha. Identifies social, political, and historical factors influential in changes in Katokinn identity and tradition. The study is justified in the view that contemporary urban and rural society, intrinsic to indigenous ethnicities, exerted and imposed various influences on them that conditioned socio-historical and cultural changes. The study brought knowledge about these influences in order to classify and analyze them and verify the weakening of the Katokinn identity in Pariconha, Alagoas.