Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: PEDRO PINHEIRO DE ARAÚJO JÚNIOR

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STUDENT : PEDRO PINHEIRO DE ARAÚJO JÚNIOR
DATE: 10/02/2023
TIME: 14:00
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KEY WORDS:

History and Spaces. Indigenous History. Vila de Extremoz. Directory of Indians. History of Rio Grande do Norte. Indigenous Protagonism.

PAGES: 185
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: História
SUMMARY:

This thesis analyzes the political performance of indigenous municipal and militaryagents from Vila de Extremoz do Norte, Captaincy of Rio Grande do Norte, in the earlyyears of the 19th century. This space of political representation was created from thefounding of the village, with the institution of the Senate of the Chamber, on May 3, 1760,in the context of the implementation of the Directory of Indians in the Captaincies of theNorth. The village was built on the site where the Guajiru Mission had previously stood,a missionary space where, from the mid-17th century onwards, native populations ofdiverse ethnic origins were reterritorialized, that is, subjected to a new territorializationcoordinated by the administration of the Catholic Church and the Portuguese Crown. Oneof the main objectives for the establishment of the Directory of Indians (1755) was thetransformation of indigenous people into vassals of the Portuguese monarchy. To thisend, mechanisms were created for them to participate in public life in their villages,whether occupying positions in the chambers, receiving military ranks, and finally,“assisting” the settlers with their exploited labor in various activities. Among theexponents of this action, stood out the chief captain of the Indians, Hipólito da Cunha daAssunção, who, due to his diligence in the various spheres of temporal power in thatvillage, as councilor, ordinary judge and director of the Indians, was an important politicalleadership among the indigenous population in Extremoz, mainly in disputes related toland tenure and compulsory labor. To embark on this investigation, we analyzed a set ofadministrative sources (letters, requests, royal orders, trades exchanged between theSenate of the Chamber of Extremoz, the governors of the Captaincies of the North, theBoard of Justice of the Palace and the Board of Conscience and Orders) and parochial(baptisms, marriages, deaths). With the crossing of sources that we used, through theonomastic method, it was possible to identify that Hipólito da Cunha and other indigenousofficials, such as Antônio Dinis Pereira and Ignácio Duarte, filed a complaint with thedesembargador of the Judicial District of Paraíba against the “main” residents of Vila deExtremoz in relation to the irregular possession of land belonging to indigenous residents.Finally, the position taken by these characters demonstrates an indigenous protagonismin the captaincy analyzed at the beginning of the 19th century, and this was configured,in the use of spaces of power, whether municipal or military, for the defense of thecollective of the native peoples reterritorialized in this place.

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