Paths and Stops: Perspectives on Laklãnõ (Xokleng) territory.

Abstract

One hundred years after the first Xokléng/Laklanõ forced settlement of the Santa Catarina State we see an intense social and political movement between this indigenous population. Committed with a project to the strengthening of their ethnic identity the Xokleng / Laklanõ has sought in history, in the past and in their memory a path for their future. Since at least the 1970s this indigenous population has participated in the production of scientific knowledge as partners in several studies. Their memory is woven from threads of oral history and academic speeches from different disciplines along this contact path. Today they are inserted in the academic environment and have been building a cultural project for them people based on a complex tangle of knowledge and wisdom that go beyond the boundaries between local-global, emic-ethical, native knowledge - scientific knowledge. In this article I intend to reflect about our own constructions and practices in archaeological research from the perspective of the work done by indigenes scholars of the past-present axis