The process of demarcating indigenous land and the ancestral territories: the Kaingang Kógũnh Mág retaken in Canela - RS

Abstract

The process of demarcating indigenous land is a matter that raises a lot of controversy. Indigenous peoples never gave up on their territory, and several groups started independent movements aiming the demarcation of their land, how the Kógũnh Mág retaken, whose goal is to demarcate the Kaingang territory around FLONA de Canela. The activities were performed first on the field and bibliographical survey, with subsequent systematization in the office. The organization of the results was performed using a research technique known as content analysis, with three basic steps: pre-analysis, codes and data categorization, and analysis and interpretation of categories. This research shows that demarcation of indigenous land, even by following a colonizer’s restrictive territorial view, was a process consciously assimilated by indigenous peoples, a strategy to re-establish, strengthen, and build territorial bonds, in which a new territoriality rises around the retaken of indigenous land.

Keywords: Kaingang People; Kógũnh Mág Retaken; FLONA de Canela; Indigenous Land; Territorial Bonds.