Indigenous women in recovery: (re)existences and silenced trajectories in the struggles for rights and territories

Abstract

INDIGENOUS WOMEN RECOMMENDING: (RE)EXISTENCE AND SILENCED TRAJECTORY IN THE STRUGGLES FOR RIGHTS AND TERRITORIES

ABSTRACT: In historiography, despite advances, a certain obscurity still prevails regarding the importance of the roles played by indigenous women in their Territories. When not hypersexualized, they begin to be characterized as submissive and alien to the situations experienced by their people. Except for those who occupy important positions in their community or in indigenous organizations, called warriors. Specifically, regarding periods of recovery, they are often silent. Researchers in the human sciences were indifferent to the actions carried out by the original people in defense of their Territories. This article aims to contribute to the analysis of the activities carried out by indigenous women in their communities, not restricted to political positions. For this, in addition to oral history, the books “Indigenous Women of Tradition”, “For Indigenous Women” and “Guerreiras: The strength of indigenous women” will be used as historical sources. Because it is written or has the direct involvement of the originals in these projects, it is possible to hear them in the works cited, facilitating analysis. Therefore, contrary to a colonial and patriarchal approach, which makes indigenous women doubly unviable, due to their ethnic and gender condition, the proposed analyzes intend to promote greater visibility around the struggles, experiences and strategies of indigenous women, especially in the Northeast.

KEYWORDS: SILENCES; ORIGINATING; TERRITORIAL DEMARCATION.