Brejo dos Crioulos

saberes tradicionais e afirmação do território

Abstract

This article has as objective to present the black peasant’s community of the Brejo dos Crioulos in your environment and wisdoms. Situated in “Mata da Jaíba”, in hinterland north of Minas Gerais, space in the rhythm for the floods and low damps grounds, this community constructed diverse wisdoms derived from the uses that made of the environment. It started to live deeply a expropriates’ process brought for “Divisão de 1930” and continued in decade of 1940, with the arrival of cattle farmers and development governmental projects. At the current moment, Brejo dos Crioulos is recognized as “community remaining of quilombos” and acquires the right of conquer again the territory. To produce the visibility of its wisdoms constitute plus an element in affirmation of this right.