No tempo dos antigos índios: memória e identidade indígena no Planalto da Conquista em fins do Século XX e princípios do XXI

Abstract

This articleaims to discuss about indigenous descendants of “Batalha”, a rural region of “Vitória da Conquista”, in “Bahia”, Brazil, in view of the presence of communities that selfdefining as originating from indigenous sethnic groups that inhabited the region first your colonization. It still aims to analyze the defining conflicts in the history of life of current residents, as well as the defining resistance processes of identity and tradition. Therefore, it is from the revisitation of this memory in the oral transmission of “Batalha”, which is based this research, with the possibility to propose a meeting with the records of this memory and the present time.