O trabalho indígena na produção da borracha no vale do Guaporé : identidade e resistência do povo Puruborá

Abstract

The present thesis aims to analyze, through the Oral and Indigenous History, the trajectory of the Puruborá people a people who were contacted by Rondon, at the state of Rondônia in 1909, and being immediately inserted into the context of the first rubber boom at the Amazon. As a consequence of the contact that occurred with all indigenous peoples in Brazil, this ethnic group will undergo the bacteriological warfare brought by non-Indians and for which their organisms had no protection. The few survivors began to work in the latex’s extration being prevented of the marriage among themselves, and maintaining communication in the Tupi Puruborá language, which implied a miscegenation process between indigenous people, colonizers and quilombolas. The Puruborá also went by several diasporic processes, the first at the end of the first rubber boom, the second at the demarcation of the Guaporé Biological Reserve and the third at the demarcation of the Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau Indigenous Land, both in the 1980s. They were professed extinct by FUNAI, however at the beginning of the 20th century they returned and coalesce around the Aperoi Village, resuming their fight for the (re)demarcation of the territory, for intercultural education and for indigenous health. Therefore, this is a thesis that will speak of their resistance and resilience.