The struggle of the Guarani and Kaiowá in Mato Grosso do Sul for Kunã Aranduhá

Abstract

Jaqueline Gonçalves Porto, Kunã Aranduhá in the Guarani language, is a young Guarani and Kaiowá leader. In addition to the importance of being a combatant female leadership in times so serious and violent for the traditional peoples of Brazil, there is the fact that Aranduhá is one of the protagonists and organizers of the Great Assembly of Indigenous Women Guarani Kaiowá, the Kunangue Aty Guassu, which it takes place annually in indigenous lands in Mato Grosso do Sul, welcoming indigenous women from different tekohas to discuss specific women's agendas. This interview was conducted in September 2019, at the premises of the Federal University of Grande Dourados, where Jaqueline is also a leader among indigenous students. She recently graduated in Social Sciences and recently started her Masters in Social Anthropology at the same institution. We talked about their experiences, their experience of indigenous activism and feminisms, mainly in order to reflect on how the performance of a young indigenous and feminist leadership causes (or not) changes in the production of knowledge, educational practices and relationships between indigenous and non-indigenous students. Seeking to bring provocations from indigenous studies and feminist epistemology, he criticizes androcentric colonial science. Our conversation explained the strength and vibrancy of this militant Guarani Kaiowá, feminist and mother, who has a lot to teach us with her strength and perseverance, especially with the humility and respect she has with her people, especially in relation to women of different backgrounds. generations.