THE INDIGENOUS PRESENCE IN THE CONSTITUTION OF THE CITY OF ÁGUAS BELAS, PERNAMBUCO

Most of the current cities in Pernambuco countryside was constituted through the mixed flows of settlers, but mainly from the relationship between those settlers and the existing indians`village. In the zone known as Agreste Pernambucano, there is a city called Águas Belas, where we can track the trades between Indians and non-Indians in the settlement and understand the development of the place from in the end of the XVIIIth century and along the XIXth century. The focus of this article is to bring a discussion about the formation of this city, giving attention to the indigenous participation in the local daily life through the relations of conflict and alliance developed with the non-Indians. In this way, the analyses of the case of a city and its social dynamics marked by indigenous presence, that contributes to the debate bringing new questions about the countryside formation of Pernambuco´s State