Índios de guerra: aldeamentos e tropas indígenas na capitania de Pernambuco entre 1660 e 1695

Abstract

The war against the Palmaristas meant another stage in the colonization of the territory of the Capitania of Pernambuco, allowing the expansion of the colonial world to the hinterland, a region until then barely dominated by the Portuguese administration. For such an endeavor, different types of troops were recruited to fight in the many conflicts against the Palmaristas, among which were troops made up of natives “aldeados”. Based on this, we sought to understand the importance of the aldeamentos and the involvement of the Indians in this war. To this end, the context of the formation of the aldeias and the way in which the Indians were recruited for the conflicts was studied. The objective of this work was to analyze the participation of Indian troops in the Palmares War, between 1660 and 1695, period in which most of the expeditions took place, destroying the mocambos that made up the Quilombo dos Palmares. The research was carried out through administrative records found in the main collections of documentation related to the colonial period of Brazil, such as the collection Documentos Históricos da Biblioteca Nacional (DHBN), as well as texts by chroniclers of the period.