The invasion of the Kaingang lands in campos de Palmas: the process against the indigenous leardeship Vitorino Condá (1839-44)

Abstract

The objective of the study is to analyze the documentation of the period, also investigating about how was the judicial process against the indigenous leadership Vitorino Condá and the invasion of the indigenous people lands under his command in the region between the Campos de Palmas in southern Brazilian Plateau. The invasion of Palmas fields analyze the involvement of the imperial authorities and farmers in the process of trying to control, dominate and expulse Vitorino Condá and his men. The article also demonstrate the policy pursued by the authorities and farmers in order to remove Condá from their home places through a civil process of justification. To understand that, it is important to demonstrate the process of expulsion the Kaingang people led by Vitorino Condá from Palmas fields. In the struggle for their land, supported by confronting farmers and imperial authorities during the Luso-Brazilian expansion, there is the assertion of towns and villages, marking up the political strategies of Indigenous and non-Indiginous people in these places.