Marias, Antônias e Raimundas: memórias de mulheres camponesas na luta pela terra no assentamento Gleba Colorado, Riachinho (TO)

Abstract

This research aimed to understand through the narratives of pioneer women and women who have had and still have participation in the formation of the settlement Gleba Colorado located in the municipality of Riachinho - TO, in the period from the 1980s until the year 2021, from the perspective of analyzing in an interdisciplinary way the socio-spatial trajectory, understanding its territory, territoriality, identity and memory from the reports of these women activists in the field and their representation. In this sense, the following question arises: how have these women contributed to the development and formation of the settlement? Unfortunately, only two of the pioneer women are still alive and living in the settlement. Due to their age and health problems, they presented some difficulties at the time of the research, but they tried to describe the struggle for land. In relation to the research methodology, we adopted the following procedures: bibliographic and documental research. The research method is oral history with life history techniques, using as theoretical basis the works of Portelli (1997), Alberti (1996) and Thompson (1992). The result of the research pointed to the fact that the fight for the rural settlement was not an easy path, the struggles started since the occupation of the land, the fight for water, electricity, education, all lived under threats of being evicted or killed by gunmen. Those were difficult times. But the conquest of the land and the construction of the territory and the production of territorialities were built with the strength and struggle of peasant women.