This thesis proposes listening and assembling counter-colonial stories told by leadership from
traditional territories of Abaetetuba and Barcarena, located at Baixo Tocantins, an
ancient-occupied region of the Amazon, invaded by industrial and logistical enterprises
derived from the mining and agribusiness sectors. The research consists of two parts: the
book Vidas em Confluência: day-to-day and struggle in Abaetetuba and Barcarena
communities, with stories and life tales about the lives of eight living storytellers, mainly
women of black and indigenous descent from six traditional communities; the discussion
about history writing and worldview wars in the Amazon, neocolonial death tales of capital
and State powers while also reassembling the life tales that make up the book. The thesis
starts from the following issue: how do crossed life tales from leaderships that live on
traditional communities threatened/hit by colonial-capitalist progress in Abaetetuba and
Barcarena weave existence, conflicts and resistance in a way to converge, by diversity and
contrast, towards shaping collective-beings in the Amazon? This question unfolds into two
objectives, each one complying with each part of the thesis: (1) composing a crossed
narrative using speeches and writing from the lives of community leaderships of Abaetetuba
and Barcarena, that retells and reshapes stories from the collective-being in the Amazon, with
its junctions and distinctions; (2) analyze the tension between life tales of the collective-being
and death tales of capital and State powers in Barcarena and Abaetetuba that arise from
counter-colonial thoughts and stories. The methodological path crosses worlds using
cosmo-hearing, crosses languages using memory transcription and delivers a crossed
composition/assembly of the stories in two ways: with a narrative quality in the book and
with an analytical quality in the deduction. The hypothesis is that the methodological
disruption brought up by the thesis allows to: (1) identify reproductions of the colonial event
and converge to new counter-colonial entries to reshape stories from the Amazon; (2)
understand thoughts and tales that surface as potential resistance to total violence and traces
of existence in the midst of colonial-capitalist ruins
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