Flechas e punhais: as relações socioculturais entre os indígenas Atikum e os cangaceiros na Serra do Umã no Sertão pernambucano (1922-1938)

Abstract

The current study sought to analyze the relationship between the Atikum Indigenius people and the bandits of the Lampionic Period, betwenn 1922 to 1938, time when Lampião, was heading one of the biggest gangs of ‘social bandits’ in the Northeast Hinterlands. In this way, we seek to understand the processes that built those interactions, pointing the dynamics lived by those two groups, taking in consideration that the social context of the period in question indicates some of the reasons for the establishment of those relationships. The Umã Sierra is a space of privilege to analyze because it’s historically inhabited by indigenous people and, in the begging of the 20th century, it was a refuge to ‘social bandits’.