"Proteção tutelar às avessas": a transformação da paisagem no posto indígena Nonoai (RS) sob a atuação do Serviço de Proteção aos Índios (SPI) (1941-1967)

Abstract

The present dissertation used documentary and bibliographical materials for an research, in which we carry out the interrelationship between Indigenous History and Environmental History. In this sense, we dedicate to the study the transformations in the cultural landscape of the Nonoai Indigenous Post (PI) at Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil, where occurred the anthropic action on the Kaingang environment, during the period of operation of the indigenist agency “Serviço de Proteção aos Índios” (SPI) (1941- 1967). The definition of the scope was due to the availability of documentary and photographic sources prepared by the SPI, from 1941 to 1967, and accessed at the Museu do Índio, located at Rio de Janeiro City. We are based on the concept of cultural landscape highlighted by Simon Schama (1996), in this case, within the scope of Indigenous Post of Nonoai . Furthermore, we use the theoretical references of Donald Worster (1991) and José Augusto Drummond (1991), who deal with the writing and use of sources in Environmental History, an area of study that highlights the relationship between man and nature and the resulting effects of that. The research, therefore, analyzes and identifies the transformation of the cultural landscape, that is, the changes on the Kaingang environment resulting from human action, within the PI Nonoai, in the period of indigenous policies developed by the SPI, during intensified logging and land use through agricultural activities.