Why is the Pajé Santxiê Tapuya Sanctuary Not Moving? Escape routes: indigenous people and candangos in the Altiplano of Brasília (1957 – 2024).
Candango indigenous people; Brasilia; Sanctuary of the Shamans; State; Earth; Traditionally busy.
With the national call made by President Juscelino Kubitschek for workers from the interior of the country to build the new capital, Brasília, in 1957, Tapuya indigenous Candangos from Pernambuco also joined in and began to occupy a cerrado area in part of the old Bananal Farm to the manifestation of their cults, prayers, traditional spiritualities away from the visibility of construction sites - the site from which the indigenous community of the Santuário dos Pajés was formed, led by the Pajé Santxiê Tapuya. Since this initial historical milestone, the indigenous community Santuário Pajé Santxiê has established itself in the current territory in the Northwest Sector, of the Plano Piloto de Brasília, known as Santuário dos Pajés, triggering a process of territorialization based on its traditional forms of use and occupation anchored in traditional, cosmological and spiritual knowledge. At the beginning of this century, with pressure and threats to remove the indigenous community from its territory to implement the urban expansion project, Setor Noroeste, the community launched a process of demand and struggle through the indigenous movement of the Santuário Sagrado dos Pajés (Santuário Sagrado dos Pajés) (The Shrine of the Shamans Doesn’t Move!). Today, indigenous territory has been recognized as traditionally occupied land in accordance with Article 231 of the Federal Constitution and has been in the demarcation phase by the Federal Court since September 2019, after a long and dramatic process of judicialization and interethnic conflicts within the scope. of State.