Descendants of the Pankararu, the Kantaruré people
came into being a little more than a century ago, when the
Pankararu woman known as Rosa Baleia left her village in
the Brejo dos Padres to marry Balduíno, who lived
in Olho d´Água dos Coelhos, located near the
Serra Grande[Big Hill]. The couple set up residence and
made their gardens on the other side of the Hill, where
they raised thirteen children and founded the village of
Batida. Beyond that, the Kantaruré today are also
located in the community of Pedras, both inside the Kantaruré
Indigenous Land, homologated in 2001.
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Sheila Brasileiro
Expert analyst in Anthropology of the Attorney General
of the state of Bahia/Federal Public Ministry
Doctoral student in the Social Sciences – Faculty
of Philosophy and Human Sciences/Federal University
of Bahia
sheilab@prba.mpf.gov.br
July, 2003
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