Kaingang ethnic territories

Abstract This article presents an overview of Kaingang ethnic territorialization processes in Southern Brazil. Based on historical and ethnographic data, this article analyzes tensions found in the agencyings of territories, emphasizing the resistance of the Kaingang in face of impositions from colonization. The analysis focuses on the different periods of colonial expansion, highlighting the processes of territorial expropriation, conflicts, struggles and negotiations between the Kaingang and different agents of the state. The main objective is to broaden the debates about the importance of the ethnic territories in southern Brazil, based on an appreciation of the perspective of the Kaingang about the processes of territorial confinement and their “retakings” of territories in the past forty years.

摘要 本文系统梳理了巴西南部卡因冈族（Kaingang）的族群领土化进程。本文依托历史与民族志资料，剖析族群在领土实践中存在的能动性张力，着重展现卡因冈族直面殖民强加举措时的抵抗行动。分析聚焦殖民扩张的不同历史阶段，着重梳理卡因冈族与不同国家行为体之间的领土征用、冲突、抗争与协商历程。本文核心旨趣在于，基于对卡因冈族本土视角的体察，拓展学界关于巴西南部族群领土重要性的讨论，探讨近四十年来该族群所经历的领土禁锢与"收复"领土的进程。