Territórios em redes ocultas

identidades e ramificações Pankararu em Pernambuco e São Paulo

Abstract

Pankaru is an indigenous people from the Brazilian semiarid region near the São Francisco River, an area continuously inhabited for about 7000 years. Like other neighboring peoples, it suffered great attacks in the expansion of Portuguese colonialism since the 16th century, loss of its territories, freedom and language. With the growing demand for recognition from the 20th century on, it becomes one of the first indigenous group of the Northeast to have its existence and demarcated territory recognized by the State. Today, with two different population nuclei, in the original territory of Brejo de Padres (PE) and in the country's largest metropolis, São Paulo, they are an example of the plurality and diversity of Brazil's indigenous peoples, as well as their complex socio-territorial identities.