Between violence and the way back: Nambiquara from Vale do Guaporé's resistance during brazilian military dictatorship (1968-1980)
Nambiquara; Wasusu; Alantesu; Hahaintesu; Waikisu; Waikatesu; military dictatorship.
The purpose of this work is to understand the Nambiquara from Vale do Guaporé historical agency between the years 1968-1980 during brazilian military dictatorship. Vale do Guaporé is a region located at the state of Mato Grosso. In that period, Nambiquara linguistic ethnical groups namely the Wasusu, the Alantesu, the Hahaintesu, the Waikisu and the Waikatesu were inflicted a removal process from their traditional territory by the Fundação Nacional do Índio (Funai).
This movement was part of an indigenous policy which was attached to an authoritarian economic development model by brazilian dictatorial governments to the Amazon which favored mainly large agribusinessmen. In this process the natives have suffered from illness and hunger. When they returned to their territory throughout the decade of 1970 they had to fight for space with dozens of great agriculturalists and also to organize strategies before a new interethnic situation.
That said, during the removal process perpetrated by FUNAI we intend to demonstrate that this institution neglected ethnical elements which were fundamental to the way indigenous people dealt with the removal process. The importance of these aspects especially the articulation between ethnical identity and territorial origin is perhaps the main key to understand their
territorial reoccupation and the relations which were stablished between indigenous and nonindigenous groups at Guaporé Valley.