Entre memória e história : as representações de Damiana da Cunha em Mossâmedes

Abstract

The research aims to analyze the life of Damiana da Cunha in a period of time lived by her, there are many works that were done to her person, however few residents of Mossâmedes remember and are curious to know what it was and made this woman of many purposes, missionary, teacher, head of expeditions, exercised its role of Christianity over its Kayapo people, Damiana da Cunha being an Indian woman was greatly admired by many important people of the time, of great contribution to the development of the São José de Mossâmedes village, research historical seeks to understand the Jesuit villages, Pombaline regiment, lived in the same period, and the life of Damiana da Cunha, her work as a female leader carried out in an indigenous policy of the 19th century, it also extended into knowing the memory of the character today in the city of Mossâmedes, seeking to obtain enriching information for the purpose of the project, a survey of field, gathering the information that the Mossamedin people have about Damiana da Cunha, with the aim of seeing what people know and the places of memory that were made her person, those who know her in some way recognize her importance, this ensures that time does not erase her memory.