Intrusion in the “Alto Uruguai gaúcho” – 1927-29: the case of the “troop of João Inácio”

Abstract

The article examines processes of intrusion of peasants caboclos in the official settlements a north of Rio Grande do Sul; it demonstrates the political philosophy of colonization of the sphere public in the first decades of the twentieth century, which excluded most small farmers already present in the region; it reveals strategies struggles of small farmers by obtaining title to land.