Banca de DEFESA: DEISIANE DA SILVA BEZERRA

DYNAMICS OF MEDIATION: FATHER ALFREDO DÂMASO AND THE INDIGENOUS ORGANIZED MOVEMENT BASED ON THE ETHNIC RECOGNITION OF THE FULNI-Ô IN PERNAMBUCO (1918-1954)

Mediation; ethnic recognition; indigenous peoples; Fulni-ô

The purpose of this thesis is to discuss the dynamics of mediation involving the Funi-ô indigenous people and Father Alfredo Pinto Dâmaso, between 1918 and the mid-1950s, based on the process of recognition of this people. The analysis of documents and oral records reinforced and confirmed that the relationship between the indigenous people and the mediator contributed to the consolidation of an organized indigenous movement made up of networks forged by the indigenous people, supported by the actions promoted by the mediator. This argument is based on the triggering of new processes of ethnic recognition in the Northeast, involving indigenous peoples in Pernambuco, Alagoas and Bahia. We will seek to discuss the indigenous roles in this process; as well as the sociopolitical conditions enabling access to the Indian Protection Service (SPI) and the construction of the Dantas Barreto Indigenous Post, followed by other indigenous posts in the aforementioned states. We will also highlight the mediator's perception of the processes narrated in documentation collected, archived and also produced by him. We base our discussions on the reflections of several researchers on indigenous peoples in the Northeast and in dialogue with analyzes of documentary sources and oral memories.