Territory, territoriality and spaciality Kaingang the south of the Taquari-Antas river basin, Rio Grande do Sul/Brazil

Abstract

The plateau regions of southern Brazil constitute spaces of traditional occupation of Kaingang natives. Even though they were expelled from the traditional territorial, the Kaingang never ceased to move through their territories, from the second half of the twentieth century began to undertake a process of resumption of their land that originates from the lack of physical space in the indigenous areas located in the north. The Pó Mág Indigenous Land, located southern portion of the Taquari-Antas Hydrographic Basin, originates from this process and has been undertaking the construction of its territoriality in the indigenous land space. The purpose of the study is to analyze how the Kaingang of the Pó Mág Indigenous Land perceives the elements that constitute place, territoriality and spatiality in the local space. In order to do so, the method of the study is qualitative and counted on the analysis of content and the approach related to ethnohistory and environmental history regarding the investigation of the documentary survey and the data obtained through oral history and procedures ethnographic. As results, based on theoretical contributions of territoriality and ethnicity, it was pointed out that the Pó MágIndigenous Land is endowed with a spatiality and its own dynamics, which bring it closer to a space as a place, endowed with characteristic meanings and the sense of belonging