INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE TO THE COLONIALIST COSMOVISION

Abstract

The intent of this article is to highlight the new interpretative keys to think about the historical relations of colonial and post-colonial domination and the (re)existence of indigenous women and men and their historical protagonisms in order to deconstruct the idea of passive indigenous people and victims in/ of History by presenting that indigenous peoples acted from their own political strategies through their cosmopolitics. Present the ideas and technologies of power that historically guide discourses and actions of colonial and post-colonial power vis-à-vis indigenous populations rooted in Brazilian indigenist policies. Realize that the struggles of (the) indigenous people for their rights are historical and observe how these interethnic relations of colonial subalternization processes and indigenous (re)existences occur in specific historical situations. As a particular case, I approach the interference of indigenous politics in the late application of the Directory of the Indians in Goiás as an effect of the uprising that took place in the São Francisco Xavier Mission in the north of the captaincy, emphasizing what I call the memory of the uprising.