Os Xakriabá in the rio San Francisco-São João das Missões/MG, Brazil - the look at the circunstanciado report of identification and delimitation: conquered territory

Abstract

The Xakriabá people suffered, in the past 150 years, numerous threats that ended in the loss of territory. After several actions of struggle and resistance, the Indigenous land of Xacriabá-T.I.X and subsequently the Indigenous land of Xakriabá Ranchi-T.I.X.R were approved, in the 1980s. However, the demarcation of those lands has not resulted yet in the conquest of the traditionally occupied territory that reached the São Francisco River. The aim is to identify, in the Detailed Report of Identification and Delimitation, document published in the Official Journal in October 6, 2014, the areas with observance of the conquered territory of traditional occupation. Therefore, the report's analysis was performed taking as a fundamental starting point the identification of resumption areas, the arguments on the identification and delineation and the verification if the current area is considered a conquered territory. In a previous study on the recognition of the report, it is noted that there are areas traditionally occupied by the Xakriabá in the city of São João das Missões.