Sobre mestiçagens numa freguesia do sertão da América portuguesa: o caso do índio Tomé Gonçalves da Silva

This article discusses the phenomenon of mestizations in the Freguesia do Seridó instance of religious administration established in the 18th century in the interior of the Capitania do Rio Grande in Portuguese America. The survey was conducted from a micro-historical approach, focusing on the trajectory of the Indian Tome Goncalves da Silva performed through the intersection of colonial sources of various types. It is inferred from the survey, which the colonial territory of the interior of Rio Grande, despite the breakdown of tribal societies, the movement of people from all over the known world behind the emergence of mestizations between their bodies and their practices: the luso-brasílicos, the Portugueses, the African slaves and frees, mestizos, Indians remnants of wars of conquest