Abstract:
We discuss reflexively about the recent historiography of indigenous peoples in Brazil stressing the struggles and experiences of these original groups in the present and which the so-called indigenous historians of recent times scrutinize, highlighting indigenous agencies in processes of new territorialities, interethnic relations, and the fact that collectively in the post-contact they knew how to create survival strategies even in the face of countless violations of their original rights from the 16th century to the present day. We emphasize that the recent works on indigenous peoples reveal an use of different historical sources in which indigenous protagonisms are evident in the post-contact. The present dossier, called Indigenous Peoples in Portuguese America between the 16th and 19th centuries. Interethnic Contacts, Agencies and Territorializations, contemplates unprecedented works that sought the interdisciplinary path of the history of indigenous peoples, structuring their assertions in different epistemes such as anthropology, education, legislation, among other fields of knowledge, revealing the decolonial perspective that the original peoples in the past and in the present knew how to create new adaptive territorialities by building spaces of power in the face of indigenous policies in the different historicities of Brazilian regions.
Keywords:
indigenous peoples; interethnic contacts; indigenous agencies; territorializations