TEKO ATY: processos de resistência histórica e construção de aliança entre Kaiowa de Ka’aguyrusu

Abstract

The main focus of the thesis is the discussion of the impacts generated by the arrival of colonization fronts in the lands occupied by the Kaiowa, especially from the creation and implementation of the National Agricultural Colony of Dourados, which incorporates the current municipality of Douradina. This event consolidates the initiative to expropriate indigenous lands by the State to donate lots to settlers. The indigenous body imposed territorial confinement as part of the indigenous policies adopted by the Brazilian state, causing ãy kañy (time of confusion) in the temporality used by the indigenous people. Fearing the total destruction that had begun with the loss of occupied territories and the spread of hitherto unknown diseases, the Kaiowa took refuge in ymaguare (primordial temporality), even though actions aimed at indigenous people proposed their integration into “civilized” society”, generated the opposite effect, that is, the intensification of attachment to the ava reko (way of being/living) of their primordial ancestors. In this way, they continued and continue to resist and fight for the territory occupied by their ancestors. Also using ymaguare, they seek to find answers to the challenges and difficulties proposed by the new temporality without giving up remaining in Ka’aguyrusu (the great forests). The research mobilizes methodological efforts that include documentary analysis, discussion with historical and anthropological bibliography and dialogue with Kaiowa interlocutors, a large part of my own family. As contribution, the effort is to record and analyze the Kaiowá perception of the history they have experienced in Ka’aguyrusu since the arrival of the economic occupation fronts.