Por que guerreiam os Kaingang dos Koran-Bang-Rê? História, cosmologia e território de um povo Jê no Sul do Brasil

Abstract

The Koran-bang-rê (Large Open Fields – Fields of Guarapuava) consist of a territory traditionally inhabited by the Kaingang since the pre-colonial period. However, traditional historiography, and even that which proposed writing an indigenous history for the region, privileged the history of conquest. With this proposition I aim to investigate the history of the Kaingang of the Koran-bang-rê from a perspective that connects temporalities. Starting from the rupture of the dichotomy between Prehistory/History, I seek to demonstrate continuities and transformations in Kaingang history in the region. I opt for the Ethnohistory method, which strives for interdisciplinarity to compose Indigenous History. Temporal connections, however, do not aim at a narrative about all aspects of history, but rather three hypotheses to be investigated: a) The presence of a large ring landfill in the vicinity of the TI Marrecas, and the impetus with which the Kaingang defended this territory traditional, suggest that in the pre-colonial period the Koran-bang-rê were a major Kaingang center (ritual, political and territorial); b) That the Koran-bang-rê are the result of a process of territorialization that occurred in the pre-colonial period, a fact that was marked in the landscape by the construction of ring structures and burial mounds, and: c) That the Koran-bang-rê have been a reference territory not only in the pre-colonial period as a ritual, political and territorial center, but which remained during the colonial period.