A retomada da terra indígena de Nonoai: pela janela de Zero Hora

Abstract

The research shows how the daily newspaper Zero Hora narrates the “Takeback of the Indian land of Nonoai”, from 1990 to 1992. We shall see that 79% of the material shows a depreciative construction about the Kaingang people. In adition to historical constructions like the “colonial archives”, from where words like: dangerous, cannibals, and drunkards sprout from, there are other frameworks that contribute for the perpetuation of tension between Indian people and the involving society. With a sort of complaint against such treatment, it is sought to break the constituted senses so far, and deconstitute still used expressions as in “Indians are all the same” and “much land for less Indian”.