Índios resistentes: uma análise sobre a origem, o território e a territorialidade do povo Kalankó

Abstract

The resistant Indians: an analysis of the origin, territory and territoriality of the Kalankó people. The research aims to analyze the process of deterritorialization of indigenous Kalankó until its until their reterritorialization in the municipalities of Água Branca and Mata Grande / AL. Through theoretical and conceptual assumptions, it was possible to analyze the process of expropriation and enslavement of the indigenous from the invasion of the Portuguese until the consolidation of colonization in Brazil. This process of persecution and massacre of traditional peoples was responsible for the dispersal and extermination of many indigenous people. The indigenous peoples living in the Alagoas backlands underwent a process of deterritorialization that occurred with the end of the settlement of Brejo dos Padres / PE. In the face of deterritorialization, the Kalankó moved to the interior of Alagoas, where they lived for a long time in anonymity. In the last decade of the twentieth century, the Kalankó publicly assumed their ethnic condition. Therefore, the reterritorialization of the Kalankó Indians in the municipalities of Água Branca and Mata Grande / AL, begins a struggle for the demarcation and recognition of their territory, as they still live in non-demarcated lands. The present study uses the territory category and is an effort to critically analyze the aforementioned process.