A Dinâmica de mobilizações dos Guarani e Kaiowa no estado de Mato Grosso do Sul: uma etno-história da luta pela terra na comunidade Indígena Kurupi de Santiago Kue

Abstract

The present research aims to analyze the historic context in which the Guarani and Kaiowa people, by means of the resistance to the progressive violations of their rights, and to pressure the State to attend their claims, especially regarding to their traditional territories, have been developing resistance and coping dynamics against the spoliation process of their territories. The demarcations of indigenous land presents itself as a serious historic problematic and, contrary to it there are economic and political interests, what includes, by one side the parliamentary ruralist seat and, by the other side, the indigenous people, who are in unfavorable conditions. Thus, we seek to analysis the struggle for the retake of the territories, highlighting the continuity and ruptures of this process, as well the importance of the camping formations and occupations which demonstrate the Guarani and Kaiowa position to establish alternative answers to the imposition of interests from the surrounding society. The research investigates the mobilization waged by the Guarani and Kaiowa people on last two decades in Mato Grosso do Sul state, as well as the adversities that they have faced during the waiting time for the lands demarcations, using as an example of this conjuncture the dwellers of the Kuripi camping from the Indigenous Land Santiago Kue, localized in Naviraí city, Mato Grosso do Sul. The study has been supported in official documents, besides the empiric part of observation on-the-spot and the recordings of interviews, getting information which help to analyze the historic trajectory traveled by the integrants of Kurupi community since the 20th century. From an ethno-historic research, it is presented the discussion of the guiding principles of the mobilizations undertaken by the Guarani and Kaiowa and its results. Currently this community lives striking experiences opposite to the claim for the effectiveness of their territorial rights and still articulating strategies to expedite the demarcation process, which is stagnant. The three territorial retakes undertaken by the community present different resistance strategies, but, it has in common, the same hope feeling, which lead them to continue fighting in order to one day they can go back to live in peace in their tekoha.