Colonização, ocupação, posses, conflitos e registros de terras na fazenda Rodeio Bonito no pós-guerra do Contestado

Abstract

With the arrival of international capital in the Midwest region of Santa Catarina, marked by the construction of the São Paulo – Rio Grande do Sul railway, a large-scale colonization project was initiated by the State and private capital. The goal was to integrate this region previously considered a demographic void, into the machinery of international capitalism. After the end of the Contestado War in 1916, the municipality of Chapecó was established, and during this same period, the Judiciary was introduced to also legalize agrarian issues. The establishment of the Judiciary in Western Santa Catarina enabled the State to exercise surveillance, monitoring, and the dispersal of ethnic groups deemed by the State and the Colonizing Companies as an obstacle to the development of a national policy that embodied a new economic dynamic. This dissertation is based on an extensive theoretical survey, addressing concepts and studies related to agrarian issues, ethnic groups, migrations, settlement, population distribution, and their correlations with the colonization process of Western Santa Catarina. Specifically, the research focuses on the Lunardi colonizing company during the period spanning from the 1930s to 1967. The methodological approach included a comprehensive literature review, as well as the analysis of judicial proceedings from the studied periods, which were produced by the Judiciary of that time and are now archived at the Center for Western Santa Catarina Memory.