Caminhos da Guerra: os índios Parintintin e as frentes de expansão seringalista no rio Madeira (1853-1923)

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate the ethnopolitical dimension of the relate between the Kawahíwa-Parintintin indigenous and their subgroups with the expansian fronts of rubber extraction in the territorialities that encompass the Tapajós to Alto Madeira. The research period comprises the years in whitch through documentary analysis investigated the processes of forced displacement of the Tupi peoples, as well as sought to recreate the Kawahíwa-Parintintin ethnogenesis. As well, the studies of the resistance of these subgroups to the missionary advances until the moment of the called "pacification", promoted by Nimuendajú, around 1923, so that is this way the indigenous ethnopolitical actions would corrobarate to prolong the advance of the "civilizatory process" at the borders, as well as the intrusion and the depletion of natural resources on state-prometed indigenous lands that continued throughout the first decades of the twentieth century in the Amazon.