A agência indígena e o projeto colonial português em Goiás na Guerra Justa contra os Kayapó (1735-1832)

Abstract

This study uses documentary and bibliographical research, as well as the analysis of oral tradition, to build knowledge on the historical role of the Kayapó do Sul people during the fair war declared by the Portuguese Crown in the land of the Goyazes, during the 17th century (with implications that would reach the first decades of the 19th century). It also examines the construction of the historical figure of the bandeirante and bandeirantismo – an essential element for understanding the erasure of indigenous protagonism – a process that responded to less historiographic motivations than ideological ones. The aim is to interpret historical facts in light of decoloniality, a concept made up by the Modernity/ Coloniality group, formed by Latin intellectuals who carried out a political/ epistemological movement essential for the critical and utopian updating of Social Sciences in Latin America in the 21st century.