Xukuru-Kariri People in Alagoas: Migrations, Work in Sugarcane Farming and the Approach to Indigenous Themes in History Teaching

Abstract

In this article, we will discuss the various actions of indigenous work in Alagoas, since the nineteenth century, emphasizing the Xukuru-Kariri people, inhabiting Palmeira dos Índios, in the Agreste/Semi-arid region of Alagoas. Our intention will be to problematize the intense indigenous participation in the constructions and consolidations of the aforementioned region since the provincial period, going through the so-called “extinction of the villages”, which occurred arbitrarily under the legal protection of the Land Law of 1850 and the movements of ethnic recognition with the installation of a Post of the Indian Protection Service (SPI), in Palmeira dos Índios during the second half of the twentieth century.  we will propose discussions and activities on how the themes of migration, work and indigenous peoples can be addressed in the teaching of History, based on analyzed situations and audiovisual productions.