"HOW CAN WE BE SAD IF THIS YEAR..."

the rewriting of a (new) history of indigenous resistances in republican Brazil from the digital

Abstract

Although traditional history has been written under colonial lenses and effects, the numerous resistance movements of formerly dominated peoples allow us to establish, based on their agency, important processes of rewriting and rereading these histories. In this sense, this work aims to analyze the meaning-making effects produced by the trend 'How can we be sad if this year...,' present in the positioning of the Brazilian indigenous social movement in its resistances woven in republican Brazil. This trend presents a brief retrospective of important historical events that marked the trajectory of the Brazilian indigenous social movement in 2024. From a methodological point of view, we engage with the materialist theory of discourse. The experiences and histories lived in Brazil by indigenous peoples essentially reflect the effects of colonization processes, sustained by a Eurocentric logic that, throughout history, has been responsible for the expropriation of ancestral and original rights, knowledge, memories, cultures, and identities. The observed material allowed us to scrutinize the intrinsic elements of the constitution and functioning of the indigenous social movement in contemporaneity, identifying the sayings that, when written, operate and circulate in the digital realm, making it possible to rethink and rewrite other narratives, shaped by original and ancestral resistances. These manifestations of the contemporary indigenous movement through digital means, which materialize in language, beyond the agglutination of voices, counter the stereotypes that colonial violence usually idealizes, and can, as one of its effects, allow these experiences and lived realities to be rewritten and broken, enabling the prospect of new horizons through the achievements of the original peoples, strengthening themselves and positioning themselves in the direction of rewriting and rereading other histories. These movements of rereading and rewriting history, previously erased, silenced, and violated under colonial effects, allow us to dream of the possibility of another future, a different Brazil, and other narratives, written and shaped under resistances and by the hands of original and ancestral peoples.