Formação territorial e questões indígenas no município de Maracanaú-Ceará

Abstract

This research addresses territorial formation and indigenous issues in the municipality of Maracanaú-CE, which is located in the northeast region of Brazil and is an integral part of the metropolitan region of Fortaleza. Currently the city has 38 neighborhoods and an industrial district with a total of 234,392 inhabitants. With its emancipation in 1983, Maracanaú underwent several transformations, including territorial, cultural, social, economic and political, which will be discussed in this research, with the process of Maracanaú becoming a developed municipality and a reference in the economy. But talking about Maracanaú it is also necessary to understand the history of the original people of the municipality, of the Pitaguary ethnic group, not only the history, but also the culture, ancestry, biodiversity, the geographic space and the conflicts that exist within the Pitaguary indigenous territory, which is currently divided into 4 villages called: Horto, Olho d'água, Santo Antônio and Monguba, with a total of more than 2 thousand indigenous people. Another focus of this research is to understand how the process of demarcation of these lands is going on, how land demarcation is being carried out today in Brazil and highlighting existing conflicts within the community.