Curumins e cunhatãs: por uma possível história das infâncias indígenas no Brasil

Abstract

In Brazil, the history of childhood does not differ much from that written by Europeans, since these little people rarely appear in writings from different periods in the country. However, for Brazil it is important to clarify that when studying the History of childhood, understanding the diversity and sociocultural distinctions that mark our history since the colonization process in which indigenous and African children lived together, those born on Brazilian soil, poor, free, left in the circles of the desperate, those of the rich parents, that is, there were and still are multiple childhoods. The article thus presents aspects of indigenous daily life in the history of Brazil, highlighting the presence of children and the context in which they were inserted, how they were treated, classified and lived. I highlight the 19th century, and the relationship between the empire and minors and the constitution of a notion of indigenous childhood.