Por uma História com as mulheres indígenas: possibilidades para a historiografia da ditadura militar pela perspectiva decolonial

Abstract

This article seeks to reflect on the silencing of narratives of women, blacks, and indigenous people in Brazil in the historiographic and educational fields and the importance of moving towards the construction of a history that goes against the grain (Benjamin, 1985) of hegemonic trends. Historiography must incorporate the memories and narratives of the subjects themselves who suffered the process of colonization, exploitation, and subordination through decolonial and postcolonial approaches to bring to light voices that have not had a space to be heard and have not had the opportunity to tell their own story. These critical perspectives provide a plural vision of History, in which subjects, when narrating their own life trajectories, present new perspectives and other perspectives, as they bring with them their own lived experiences and subjectivities, often marked by the violence of the colonial yoke, but also by the strong experience of those who need to fight daily for their own existence and (re)existence. In this article, we focus specifically on the need for sensitive listening and sharing of narratives with indigenous women in order to understand the social inequalities and power relations that impact their way of life. More than that, we focus on how the visibility of their stories can contribute to other understandings of the military dictatorship, allowing for a more plural and diverse view of this period marked by violence of various kinds and collective traumas, as well as the expansion of perspectives in the act of teaching and learning about the different subalternized cultures that were present at various moments of struggle in our country.