Comunidade Quilombola de Santa Tereza do Matupiri/AM: conflito, resistência e reconhecimento territorial no rio Andirá

Abstract

The present thesis has as its title "Quilombola Community of Santa Tereza do Matupiri/Am: Conflict, Resistance and Territorial Recognition on the Andirá River", a community that is located in the Andirá River region, municipality of Barreirinha, State of Amazonas. The research had the participation of some inhabitants of the community, people with black ancestry, protagonists of their own history, and with a strong backing in the resistance and struggle in favor of the traditional quilombola communities in the region. The study was based on Oral History, in a qualitative approach, having as research resource semi-directed interviews with the collaborators and recording in a field notebook, these techniques were fundamental for the collection, transcripts and description of the moment of the interviews, occasion in which neither the sonorous always translates what the countenance lets through. The basic theoretical sources that theoretically supported this work were Gomes (1997, 2003 and 2018), Sampaio (1997, 2008, 2011, 2014), Almeida (1998, 2006, 2008, 2012, 2017, 2020), Funes (1995, 2003). ), Cavalcante (2011, 2013, 2020, 2021), Pozza Neto (2011), Costa (2014, 2016) Rocha (2018, 2019) Ranciaro (2004, 2016). The results of this research assertively contemplate the objectives addressed in the primeval proposal of this work, and that during the course of the thesis the questions raised found answers in the speeches of the network of collaborators who composed the field research. And the black leaders, after long years of struggles, managed to succeed in their claims for territory and finally having their lands recognized as quilombola communities, specifically the Quilombola Community of Matupiri, which, according to the Palmares Foundation under ordinance nº 176, of October 24, 2013, registered in the General Registry Book nº 16, the collective recognition of the Communities of Boa Fé, Trindade, São Pedro, Ituquara and Matupiri as quilombola communities. The recognition of these quilombola communities located on the Andirá River is a response to the demands of the Quilombola Federation, and at the same time a territorial and ethnic matrix valorization, which ratifies the existence of a legally constituted people, and whose formalization granted by the state and emphasized here is result of struggles and persistence of the traditional (black) populations of the Andirá River. In view of the results presented, it is expected that this quilombola territory will receive attention from the public power, from the federal, state and municipal spheres, and in this way the history, identity and memory of the black and quilombola can remain alive in the interior of the Amazon.