TRAJETÓRIAS, PERTENCIMENTOS E LUTAS DO VIVER NA CIDADE
MULHERES INDÍGENAS EM OIAPOQUE (AMAPÁ, BRASIL)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.22456/1982-6524.130452Abstract
This paper addresses the presence of indigenous women from the Galibi Kali'na, Galibi Marworno, Karipuna and Palikur Arukwayene peoples in the city of Oiapoque, state of Amapá, bordering French Guiana. The motivations for the journeys, their social and political actions and, mainly, the relationships of these women with their villages and peoples, maintained by different strategies that legitimize and strengthen their belonging, make the city a continuity of their territorialities. Interlocution with Kali'na womens made it possible to visualize the reflections of the historical processes experienced by their people in their trajectories, as leaving the village for the city remains part of a project for the community's future, an objective shared by many women from other peoples of the region. The paper especially highlights the importance of the actions of these women who live in the city to strengthen the indigenous movement and its organizations, as their presence in the urban context does not prevent, but creates possibilities for women to be permanently connected to their villages and peoples through their political action, which has been decisive for achievements and the occupation of spaces of struggle.
