A casa de sementes mãe Zenilda e o fortalecimento da agricultura ancestral Xukuru

Abstract

The Xukuru indigenous people live in the Serra do Ororubá, municipalities of Pesqueira and Poção, in the rough of Pernambuco. According to reports by Xukuru leaders, especially Cacique Xikão, murdered in 1998 by farmers, Xukuru is the name of a bird of the forest; ororubá comes from the ubá and / or ororubá tree. The combination of the two names formed Xukuru do Ororubá, which means the Indian's respect for nature. The records of contact with the colonizers date from the 16th century, with the Xukuru ancestors receiving the lands in the 19th century for their participation in the Paraguayan War. Since then, there have been struggles and conflicts between Xukuru and invaders of their lands, cattle ranchers (SILVA, 2008). After many struggles, the Xukuru, under the leadership of Xikão, started a series of retakes of their territory in the late 1980s, only in 2001 to achieve the title and definitive demarcation.