Minas mestiças: índios coloniais em busca da liberdade no século do ouro

• Main Author: Maria Leônia Chaves De Resende
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Université Paris 3 2003-12-01
• Series: Cahiers des Amériques Latines
• Subjects: Brazil; XVIII century; Indians; deportations; identity
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/cal/7398

This articles deals on the trajectory and the ways of life of the Brazilian Indians and/or their descendants of different ethnical origins who, stalked into the wilderness by explorers, evicted from their villages or expelled from their lands, came to live in the small villages and towns of Minas Gerais in the eighteenth century. Identified in a large hue of mixed categories, they came to reject their condition, falling back on the colonial justice in an attempt to establish their Indian origin. Based on this strategy, in a movement towards the redefinition and reconstruction of their identity, they forced their own recognition as Indians and, by force of law, granted their liberty in the slave society of the seventeenth century.