Remoções, dispersões, e reconfigurações étnico-territoriais entre os Pataxó Hãhãhãi

Abstract

In Bahia, at the beginning of the 20th century, in the southern and extreme south forests, small indigenous groups persisted with little or no contact, notably in the river basins. According to reports by the official indigenous agency, these groups were threatened by diseases, invasions, ill-treatment, cultural weaknesses, due to the expansion of the cocoa crop, and, above all, corruption in the Indian Protection Service itself. The purpose of this article is to present the context of the violent removals and dispersions, promoted by the State and by civilian agents motivated by economic interests, to which the Pataxo Hahahai people were subjected. For that, I use narratives found in the documents produced by employees of the state agency, as well as excerpts from interviews and biographical reports collected by me, in which the memory of the indigenous people comes to the fore.