Diásporas do povo Pankararu e Pataxó da aldeia Cinta Vermelha Jundiba: descrevendo histórias e memórias

Abstract

Communication through songs is a way of passing on the history present in ancestral memory. In addition to songs, writing has now become an important form of communication to denounce, materialize and reaffirm our history as resistant subjects. My duty as an indigenous person is to contribute for our trajectory to be recognized, addressing and bringing facts, voices, struggles, daily experiences of my people that, for a while, they tried to hide in an attempt to invalidate and omit the guilt that the Brazilian state has regarding violence against indigenous peoples. After the entire process of expulsion from the original Territories, the Pankararu and Pataxó peoples, through marriage, joined and created the Cinta Vermelha Jundiba Village, located in the State of Minas Gerais, municipality of Araçuaí in the Jequitinhonha Valley. The village, formed in 2004 on the banks of the Jequitinhonha River, is, according to Liberato (2018), one of the few existing villages in Pindorama (Brazil) that has two distinct peoples living in the same Territory. The objective of this research, however, is to describe the history and processes of diaspora of my people Pankararu and Pataxó from Aldeia Cinta Vermelha Jundiba, to give voice and protagonism to the memories of struggles and resistance of the two peoples towards the daily struggles in defense of social justice , environmental and territorial. The route they took to the state of Minas Gerais was rescued, which was not by their own will, but due to negligence on the part of the State. To provide an interactive and participatory research, conversations were held between village residents to raise voices and knowledge of members of the two peoples, Pankararu and Pataxó, delving into the perspectives and experiences of elders, leaders, women and young people. We then have a temporal relationship of thoughts that aggregates the present, past and future.