As mulheres e a colonização : participações e contribuições femininas ao projeto de colonização em Canarana – MT, na década de 1970

Abstract

This essay, whose study is Women and Colonization: female participation and contributions to the colonization project, in Canarana - MT, in the 1970s. It will be based on Oral History with the participation of some of these women who, from 1972, they began their displacements together with their families to Mato Grosso, they settled in the municipality of Barra do Garças, in the region of Araguaia and in the north of this municipality they sought to establish themselves as settlers, having as a starting point the gaucho municipality of Tenente Portela, whose project was conceived by Cooperativa de Colonização 31 de Março Ltda (COOPERCOL). As a general objective, we seek to analyze the participation and contribution of some women in the colonization of Canarana for the establishment of migrant families, reestablishment of daily life, their participation in economic, political, social activities developed in the colonization area and, consequently, in the consolidation of them. More specifically, to understand, through them, how the process of creating the Project for the colonization of Canarana began, to explore the population displacement from Rio Grande do Sul to Mato Grosso, to analyze the role of some of these women in the reconstruction of everyday life from the arrival and stay in Mato Grosso and the adaptation to the new place and present some of the contributions of the female gender to the colonization in Canarana, from decision-making, as well as their occupations in the development of the Project, from 1972 onwards. This way, we intend to discuss and show how the participation of women was at the beginning of the colonization of Canarana, how some of them acted and where each one could contribute so that the place chosen and destined by COOPERCOL could be transformed and be successful.