Muraida, o impacto da fé na colonização da Amazônia

Abstract

In this study, our intention is to highlight one aspect of the historical experience of the inhabitants of the Madeira River Mura, counted by Wilkens through the characters and the settlers in the Amazon that give voice to the plot of the poem. In polyphony of settlers poem, at the time of Portuguese colonization: inflection in the pacification and christianization, after the introduction of the Native Directory. This is a documentary study on the Mura people whereby we analyze the epic Muraida, or the Triumph of Faith, written in 1785 about the Amazon. A major caveat in this study regards the nomadic behavior and ferocity as a reaction of these Indians by the presence of settlers. Among the disclosed aspects, we highlight, in a general way, significant changes in the life of Mura people. Changes that have marked the inclusion of members of indigenous societies in colonial society in a very different way from that usually propagated by the present historical memory, for example, in didactic literature used in schools: that the Indians only fit the role of victims before the superiority of Europeans. As made clear by the documentation collected whenever possible indigenous people made choices and refused to subordinate status offered to them. Finally, we note that by analyze this conventional view of Amazon colonization present in Muraida, we seek a new perspective to retell the indigenous past of the region with fundamental relevance to the voice of the vanquished, the Mura, true heroes that fought so fierce in defense of their rights and/or against the religious and territorial expansion in this region.