Apontamentos sobre a história indígena na Serra de Santana – RN, séculos XVII e XVIII

Abstract

About the region of the Serra de Santana – RN, regional and local historiography identifies as Kariri the indigenous populations who lived there and made contact with the ranchers fronts, in the centuries XVII e XVIII. However, the recent historiographic production evidences the presence of populations Tarairiú inhabiting the region Seridó, while archaeological studies show that there were occupations bearers groups of ceramic Tupinambá in the Serra de Santana. The same way, the report of Roulox Baro, coming from the dutch period indicates the presence of two native populations: the Tarairiú/Tapuia e os Tupi/Brasilianos. Therefore, the objective of this work is to identify, Analysis by etnohistórica, which indigenous groups who were contacted by Roulox Baro, by mid-century XVII, and the ranchers fronts, at the end of this century to the beginning of the century XVIII, the current region Serra de Santana. also sought to (1) see if there were more of an indigenous group in the contact time with the colonizers. The same way (2) was investigated, how was the process of concealment and disappearance of the Indians in the local and regional historiography. As the main source we used the report Roulox Baro, being analyzed the same light annotated bibliographies.