Conquista e resistência dos Payayá no Sertão das Jacobinas: tapuia, tupi, colonos e missionários (1651-1706)

Abstract

This work suggests itself identify the complexes relations between Indians and the colonist agents, who look for their own benefits and objects to start from the negotiation and suitable resistance, that changed themselves in the sequence of the conquest and colonization process, having as reference, the “Payayá do Sertão das Jacobinas” particularity. Ethnic from the linguistics family of “kariri”, that lived in the area located at the center of “Capitania da Bahia”, actual “Chapada Diamantina” and its “Piemonte”, without exact contours, wich probably enlarged their frontiers on direction N-S, between the rivers “Itapicuru Açu” and “Paraguaçu”, and W-E between the “Médio São Francisco” and the ‘Recôncavo baiano”. The target of this research to debate the ambiguous resistant nature, or amicable or conflictual, among the contact relations of “the Payayá” and the several colonial agents (explores, corraleds, missionaries, soldiers, authorities), and the result of that complex conflict and cultural socialization. The approach looks at the perspective of “The New Native History”, elucidating the speeches and the present images in documental sources of the second moiety of the XVII century and the beginning of the XVIII century. The documentation reveals the historical-cultural dynamism from the intercourse among the Payayá, (and mostly kariri subgroups) and the colonizers in pursuance of conflicts and negotiation decisions, such as the military alliance politics in the “Guerra dos Bárbaros”, the descents and the Indian settlements, at the “Sertão das Jacobinas” scenary.