O ethos do povo marcado pela guerra do contestado

Abstract

There was a people humble and simple. He lived in the region of Santa Catarina mountainous plateau, the Araucaria pine nuts color, tree native to the region. His way of life was the subsistence crop, planted in the fertile lands and lived in simple houses built by their own hands. Yerba mate extract to keep the mate wheel and sell some as an income source. With the implementation of the timber industry, installs these lands Lumber, a large sawmill originating from the United States of America. Brings the progress of the railway and the train. They get a great devastation to the Araucaria forest and ancient imbuia. If this were not enough, the government, such as exchange of political favors, will grant possession of 15 km of land to each side of the railroad, expelling from their houses the Caboclo countryman who lived there. There was resistance. The crafty hillbillies not delivered easily. The first attacks of the soldiers were catastrophic from the military point of view, as they will not find an apathetic people, unprotected and vulnerable, but courageous, brave and fighter. Because they have reacted to the "progress" will be recognized as criminals, ignorant and indolent. Therefore, military strategies to destroy this people will be known as the Contested War, one of the largest civil revolutions in Brazil. Genocide has taken place in these lands. The killing mercilessly makes this a massacre. Finished the war, the government issues new expeditions to the cleaning operation. Qatar fugitive in the bush, beheading entire families. Another strategy was to choose someone from home to be beheaded in front of his family with the promise that if anyone spoke about the war, would die the same way. This is one of the ploys to silence and that will result in a heteronomous, apathetic and poor people. Even today a large social debt for the region and for the surviving population that still remains today. There are several gaps in the area culture, education, the economy, but above all moral. War is indelible mark on this people, sometimes violent, vulnerable, submissive, abandoned, forgotten, but at the same time, fighter, brave, bold, religious and happy.