Os indígenas de Barreiros após a extinção do aldeamento : território e trabalho na indústria canavieira (1875-1920)

Abstract

The following work aimed to analyze the indigenous continuance in Barreiros after the extinction of the São Miguel de Barreiros village in 1875. The objective was to comprehend the history of the indigenous families who received plots of land, why other families did not, as well as to understand the power of the sugar elite over most of the land in the region of Barreiros, and how the trespassing onto indigenous lands resulted in the ethnic erasure of this population. Another objective of this work was to analyze how indigenous people organized themselves throughout the invasions of lands by the sugar monoculture, which was supported by the discourse that those populations did not have the right to the village’s lands due to being considered of mixed-race, leading to the extinction of the São Miguel de Barreiros village. In order to discuss the situation of the village and its people at the end of the 19th century, it was necessary to understand the formation of the region in the colonial period, taking the process of territorialization as central to the analysis. In the end, a mapping of the indigenous families who received plots of land after the extinction of the village was done, indicating disputes over ethnic and social categories, as well as the insertion of some as workers in the sugar production during the period in which the sector was undergoing a modernization process financed by the Brazilian State.