SILVA, M. C.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8793787500720216; SILVA, Miscilane Costa.
Resumo:
The dissertation discusses the process of identification, organization and territorialization of the
Cariri, one of the 16 ethnic groups in the state of Ceará. The territorial area of what we now call
the Northeast region is indicated as being an area of important and ancient colonization in the
context of the formation of the Brazilian nation, in which the indigenous population experienced
a deep and persistent economic and socio-cultural impact of the economic and religious
undertakings of the activity Portuguese colonial. Throughout the research exercise, which was
carried out by consulting historical, sociological and ethnological texts, as well as observing
activities and conversations and interviews with those who claim to be Cariri de Poços Dantas-
Umarí, we share the perspective that informs the existence and indigenous resistance in the
Northeast, as being marked by different processes of territorialization, which is described as a
movement by which a political-administrative object is transformed into an organized
collectivity, formulating its own identity and instituting mechanisms for decision-making and
representation, and restructuring cultural forms. Following the suggestion built by João Pacheco
de Oliveira, I took the statements and the clashes about the legitimate existence of a Kariri
Indigenous People in Crato (Ceará) as the question to be explained by the dissertation, both
from the point of view of the different mediators - state agents , regional intellectuals,
researchers - like indigenous peoples, with an emphasis on those who currently live in the
territory of the state of Ceará, and the Kariri themselves. The indigenous populations of the
Northeast and Ceará faced different experiences and historical situations, throughout the 19th
and half centuries, with scenarios of clashes, political, economic, religious and social disputes,
incorporated by different social and ethnic agents, with emphasis to the discourse of the total
disappearance of the indigenous populations that inhabited the Crato region.