Resistência indígena ao plano sobre a civilização dos índios de Domingos Alves Branco Muniz Barreto, Comarca de Ilhéus, século XVIII.

Abstract

During the eighteenth century, numerous speeches were built in Portugal to try to make the indigenous peoples of Brazil in vassals of the King. More precisely in Ilhéus County in Southern Bahia, this present study will seek to discuss the documentation of the Overseas Council, Help Library authorship and referring to DomingosAlvesBranco Muniz Barreto. In defense of the Enlightenment discourse of "civility."While military will try to put in place mechanisms that could transform the Indians as intended by the Crown. In fact, the documentation showed other looks on indigenous roundness regarding the receptions of laws directors and civilities pretensions to them arising Muniz Barreto. From the critical source historian can see wires leading to trace unexplored on indigenous resistance in this particular case the spatiality of Ilhéus County. Nevertheless, we will approach the Indian agencies, deconstructing Eurocentric discourse and revealing their protagonism according to their ethnicities. The field of Ilhéus County showed that indigenous cultural practices were adapted to the realities of the counted where aimed the perpetuation of their tactics contrary experiences to speeches DomingosAlvesBranco Muniz Barreto military in the last quarter of the eighteenth century