| dc.description.abstract | This dissertation is analytically the historical formation of the Indian Reserve Araribá
located in the municipality of Avai (SP), focusing on the relationships that occur
between Terena and Guarani groups that will lead to the formation of a village called
Tereguá where, theoretically, individuals inhabit the mixing occurred between these
ethnic groups. The reserve Araribá was created in 1913 by the official indigenous
agency of the Brazilian state, first the Indian Protection Service - SPI (1910-1967) and
then the National Indian Foundation - FUNAI (1967 onwards), on land belonging to the
unoccupied calls state of São Paulo in territorialization process of the Guarani
indigenous population that was scattered between the São Paulo west, north of Parana
and east of Mato Grosso do Sul. Araribá reserve, initially occupied by Guarani families,
eventually adding Terena families brought by SPI, from the 1930s, from Mato Grosso
(South), and Brazilian regional were also incorporated by intermarriage. Currently, the
reserve of 1.930 hectares, with a population of about 600 people, is divided into four
villages: Kopenoti and Ekeruá occupied by Terena families; Nimuendajú occupied by
families Guarani and Terena Tereguá occupied by families, Guarani and those in which
there was a mix between these two ethnic groups. The sources used are literature and
ethnographic, from a participant observation and conversations with the Indians during
the research field. The work seeks to make an ethnography of Tereguá community,
highlighting its historical formation and their relationships, established inside the
reserve, with the other villages. | |
