POLITICAL CIRCUITS BETWEEN MONARCHY AND ETHNICITY: INDIGENOUS RESISTANCES IN PERNAMBUCO (c. 1694 –c. 1721).
Village of Santo Amaro; Indigenous Resistance; Territorialization.
This research searched to analyze the strategies used by indigenous people to resist the failures imposed by Catharina de Araújo and her family, wealthy residents of the Alagoas region, in the attempt to usurp half a league of land from their village to place cattle corrals and tobacco plantations. leaving the natives starving. This is what Father Friar Manoel da Encarnação reported in 1699 in a letter and memorial sent to the King of Portugal, a way they found to fight for the land of the village. Throughout this study, it was verified the services provided by the indigenous people in the defense of the territory in approximately one hundred years of existence of the village, particularly, in the fight against black refugees in the Palmares quilombos in the hinterlands of the Pernambuco captaincy. The adopted perspective flees from the polarity of the indigenous people who take refuge in the hinterlands or those who live among the colonizers without ties with their past, aiming to demonstrate them as colonial indigenous, christianized and with economic ties within the colonial society, using the ideas of politics, territory and Lusitanian culture to reaffirm their ethnic belonging. For the realization of the research, the dialogue between the digitally colonial manuscripts available in the Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino, the Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo and available through the Documenta Palmares platform was configured as fundamental.