Entre a violência e o caminho de volta: a resistência dos Nambiquara do Vale do Guaporé durante a ditadura militar (1968-1975)

Abstract

This paper analyses the historical agency of the Nambiquara ethnic groups in the Vale do Guaporé – Wasusu, Alantesu, Waikisu/Waikatesu and Hahaintesu, located in the northwest of Mato Grosso – in the face of the expansion of large farms over their traditional territories, as well as the indigenous politics of removals from the military dictatorship, between the years 1968-1975. The initial cutting was the creation of the Nambiquara Reserve where the first removed groups were taken in 1968, and the end of 1975, since that year the removal processes of the Nambiquara from the Vale do Guaporé ended, as well as almost all the ethnic groups had already returned to their traditional territories. We investigate the removals of the Wasusu and Alantesu for the Nambikwara Reserve between 1972 and 1973, and the removals of the Waikisu/Waikatesu and Hahaintesu to the restricted area, intending to demonstrate that the indigenous politics for the Nambiquara in the Vale do Guaporé, between 1968 and 1975, which had its modus operandi carried out in removals, violated the territorial rights of the ethnic groups of that region, producing the increase in diseases, deaths, and hunger among indigenous people, and that even so, the Wasusu, Alantesu, Hahaintesu, and Waikisu/Waikatesu mobilized different resistance strategies to deal with this situation. The research documentation consists of primary documents produced by the National Foundation of Indians, civil entities, missionaries and anthropologists who were analysed and linked to the relevant bibliography.