“Não somos decepadores de cabeças”: a Guerrilha do Araguaia e a participação Suruí/Aikewara

Abstract

The Guerrilha do Araguaia (1972-1974) is considered the greatest armed conflict that occurred during the military dictatorship (1964-1985). In the southeast of Pará, in the region called Bico do Papagaio, the theme still succinct debates about the plurality of subjects involved in the event. The present work aims to analyze the participation of the indigenous group Suruí/Aikewara in this conflict, seeking to understand how this memory is currently built by the group and exerts force in the search for reparations that permeates this event. To this end, we used the indigenous reports granted in the Comissão Nacional da Verdade, created in 2011, which had as its proposal to analyze and repair violations of human rights during the military dictatorship. By this documentary range, in dialogues with historiography on the theme, we propose to analyze a recent period and event that still raises an important debate about the Suruí/Aikewara and their participation in the conflict, as well as the mediation of these in the tessitura of their own history.