OS POTIGUARA NA GESTÃO DO SPI: UMA ANÁLISE DA QUESTÃO ECONÔMICA A PARTIR DO ACERVO DO MUSEU DO ÍNDIO

Abstract

This work aims to analyze how and where budgetary and financial resources were applied and made available from the Posto Indígena Nísia Brasileira, located in Baía da Traição, on the coast of Paraíba, between the years 1941-1967. Given the research it was possible, through the documentary collection of the Archive of the Museu do Índio of Rio de Janeiro, whose documents are receipts and payrolls, to half-yearly planning to be carried out in the Potiguara villages. Through a historiography on the Potiguara people, and having as a reference, the aforementioned documentary collection, we seek to understand the consequences that the expansionist policies of different governments brought to both local and economic development, and how this resulted in a rotating economy and the increase of labor relations, such as the hiring of labor and service provision for such purposes, and how local politicaleconomic interests influenced the demands of the SPI.