Protagonismo indígena na capitania de Goiás e suas estratégias e atuações frente às políticas indigenistas no século XVIII

Sumario: This doctoral thesis focused efforts on analyzing the indigenous protagonism in Goias during the eighteenth century, through the varied strategies consubstantiated in their decolonial actions. During this period, the first settlements were built in this captaincy, and from the last quarter of the eighteenth century, the Pombaline settlement villages were founded. We try to understand the interethnic relations in the captaincy of Goias, inside and outside the settlement villages, taking the enactive approach and the critical interculturality as a basis. We use the official documentation, the specialized literature and the methodology of the conversation in the preparation of this work. As for the official documentation, we concluded that it allowed us to observe, in its interstices, the decolonial indigenous actions, far beyond of a colonial reading of the interethnic relations in Goias in the 1700s. Nevertheless, the viability of a work on the assumptions of critical interculturality has been made possible by the narratives and memories of contemporary natives (Karajá, Javaé, Xavante, Kayapó, and Tapuia) about their past histories from generation to generation. It is essential to rewrite the stories of contact relations in Goias so that visibility can be given to productions of other memories that fix the rupture with the unilateralism of colonialist thought and with the subalternization of the apprehension of the world linked to the project of domination of the pair Modernity / Coloniality.