ABSTRACT
The article proposes to analyze the history of the Royal Expedition of Conquest of Campos de Guarapuava, in conjunction with the indigenous presence in the southern border region of the province of São Paulo and the history of the village of Atalaia and its indigenous chiefs. Through historical sources and bibliography pertinent to the theme, we seek to understand the intercultural plots established in the Johannine projects of occupation, exploration and domination of the native population of the so-called fields of Guarapuava between the years 1810 and 1825, a territory of importance for economic exploration and consolidation of borders with the Spanish empire. Here, we treat this process of settlement as an invasion of traditional territories occupied since prehistory by the Jê-speaking peoples, in particular the different Kaingang people parcels that, in view of the new historical configuration that presented themselves, searched for action strategies policies or conflict, evidenced in the protagonism of indigenous chiefs, defending themselves from the interests of non-indigenous militiamen and settlers, and which allowed a territorial space for the survival of these populations.
Keywords:
indigenous history; Brazil Empire; Guarapuava Fields; Kaingang people