Quando esse tal de SPI chegou: o Serviço de Proteção aos Índios na formação de Rondônia

Abstract

The goal of this research is to describe policies and Protection Service Projects to Indians - SPI, with regard to their participation in the process of construction of Rondônia. Army historical Ethnography procedure; serving me of anthropological, sociological instruments, historical and geographic. In this way, seek to break with the absence of indigenous institution with regard to studies on the highlighted region. To do this, divide the search as follows: in the first chapter, "Rondônia: an excerpt from the great siege of peace" deal on "Rondônia" provided a political project, bringing Edgar Roquette-Pinto (1915), when he formulated the project of construction of a antropogeográfica called province as "Rondônia" honoring a national hero, Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon. In chapter two, "the construction of the ninth Regional Inspectorate: the politics of indigenous in Rondônia tutelage", from documents produced by the agents of the SPI. In this opportunity, while the text is formed by the meeting of the elements to the study of the formation of Rondônia, I emphasize the context in which the ninth Regional Inspectorate was built (1940-1945) coming to events occurring in the 1950. This Province was under the jurisdiction of the Federal territory of Guaporé. The third chapter, "the SPI in the memoirs: Cassupá trajectory indigenous in the formation of Rondônia", present the experience of a group that lived several offsets accompanying the SPI, coming to live in the city of Porto Velho and that in recent years participated in the "indigenous peoples protection program Cassupá and Salamãi, in the area of influence of the Santo Antônio Porto Velho , Rondônia. The reading that I propose, in addition to build a chronology of political and administrative life of the SPI, focusing on the construction of the ninth Province, it is about understanding a complex network of scientific and military actions, amalgamated to a State formation process, otherness and producing social change that have structured in certain propositions the formation of Rondônia.