Dinâmicas da mediação: o padre Alfredo Dâmaso e o movimento organizado indígena a partir do reconhecimento dos Fulni-ô em Pernambuco (1918-1954)

Abstract

The purpose of this thesis was to discuss the mediation dynamics involving the Funi-ô indigenous people and Father Alfredo Pinto Dâmaso, between 1918 and mid-1950, when a mediation bond was established, whose scope of interventions was reflected in the robust production of sources consultable, proving continuous performance until the highlighted period. The analysis of documents and oral records reinforced and ratified the contribution of relations between indigenous people and the mediator to the consolidation of an organized indigenous movement constituted from networks forged by 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. Therefore, I sought to discuss indigenous roles, as well as the sociopolitical conditions that enabled access to the Indian Protection Service (SPI) and the construction of the Dantas Barreto Indigenous Post, in Águas Belas, followed by other indigenous posts in the aforementioned states. Also highlighting the mediator's perception of the processes narrated in documentation collected, archived and also produced by him. The discussions were based on reflections on the micro-historical model and the “indexical paradigm” proposed by Ginzburg (2007; 1989), the historiographical operation in Certeau (2015; 2014), the idea of scale games in Revel (1998 ) and in works that analyzed indigenous experiences in the Northeast based on processes of territorialization and mobilizations for ethnic affirmations, in Oliveira (1998, 1999), Dantas (2010) and Silva (2008), dialoguing with analyzes of documentary sources and oral memories of indigenous people assisted by the mediator.