BETWEEN INVISIBILITY AND PROTAGONISM: POLITICAL PARTICIPATION OF MANINHA XUKURU KARIRI IN THE INDIGENOUS MOVEMENT (1988-2006)

 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8432186

 

Ana Valéria dos Santos Silva

FAPEAL scholarship student in the Postgraduate Program in History at the Federal University of Alagoas

ABSTRACT

This research is the result of an initial analysis of a research project in History that aims to analyze the trajectory of Maninha Xukuru Kariri in the indigenous movement. Through a gender perspective, this research seeks to analyze the protagonism of indigenous women in Alagoas and their political participation. Although we have many women active in the indigenous movement inside and outside their community, they are still largely unknown. Developing studies that seek to bring protagonism to this group is a complex task, as its main obstacle will be the silence about these women in historical productions that often appear as a sex symbol or in the shadows of male personalities. Thus, newspaper clippings from the magazine Porantim dated 1989-2006 will be analyzed, analyzing the first female organizations at the national level until arriving at a clipping from Alagoas through the trajectory of Maria Etelvina dos Santos known as Maninha Xukuru Kariri.

Keywords: Women, Indigenous Movement, Alagoas.