Índia pega no laço

[3] For example, in a paper discussing the phrase, Indigenous academic Mirna P Marinho da Silva Anaquiri reports a quote from a teacher in Goiânia interviewed as part of her fieldwork: As a child I witnessed an Indian woman arriving at the farm where my father worked, tied to the tail of a horse.

Recent genetic analysis has found that a high proportion of white Brazilians, at least one third, are descended from Indigenous women on the maternal line.

[8][9] Though geneticists found this high level of Indigenous maternal ancestry surprising at first, anthropologist Suelen Siqueira Julio argues that is it "echoed" in the stories of the ancestor who was "pega no laço".

[7] For example, the Indigenous Brazilian writer and educator Daniel Munduruku, a member of the Munduruku people, has written that it is bizarre for non-Indigenous Brazilians to be proud that their great-grandfather supposedly had raped and enslaved their great-grandmother and forced her to bear unwanted children and make jokes about the pain and suffering she endured.

[6] Similarly, in her paper about the phrase, academic Mirna P Marinho da Silva Anaquiri discusses the availability in Brazil of car bumper stickers showing a cowboy lassoing women.

Rapper Katú Mirim [ pt ] is among many Indigenous Brazilians who have discussed the phrase: "People say "I have a grandmother who was "pega no laço" and I say, 'So? Do you know the name of your people? What memory do you look for in your ancestry?' " [ 1 ]