This article aims to revisit the different agencies and requests of five Timbira indigenous peoples located in the captaincies of Piauí, Maranhão, Pará and northeastern Goiás, between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, before a continuous process of forcible territorialization and reinvention of the cultural, religious and political practices of these peoples, through the contact with othernesses, particularly the cattle breeders.
Timbira; requirement; territorialization