A atuação do padre Alfredo Dâmaso e suas contribuições para o reconhecimento étnico dos fulni-ô e as mobilizações indígenas no nordeste contemporâneo.

Abstract

In this dissertation we propose to discuss the importance of Pe's performance. Alfredo Pinto Dâmaso in the process of indigenous mobilization, contributing to the ethnic recognition and official assistance to the Carnijó/Fulni-ô, inhabitants in beautiful waters/PE, between the end of the 1920 to the mid-1950 and the Indigenous mobilization in the northeast Contemporary. We seek to highlight the social and political conditions that have provided the demands of the Indians, as well as the establishment of a network of indigenous articulations and alliances with civil, military and religious authorities mediated by the priest. Thus favoring relations with the Indian/SPI protection Service, for the construction of the indigenous post Dantas Barreto, followed by other indigenous posts in Pernambuco, Alagoas and northern Bahia, as a way of reaffirming the indigenous identity in the aforementioned historical period, after the extinction of the villages in the northeast region, occurring in the last decades of the nineteenth century. We base our discussions on the reflections of authors such as Edson Silva, João Pacheco de Oliveira Filho, Antonio Carlos de Souza Lima, Halbwachs and Michel de Certeau, using documentary sources available in the Pe Memorial collection. Alfredo Damasus, located in good Council/PE and also reports of the memories of indigenous elderly who lived with the religious.