The dissertation describes and contextualizes expressions of bringing ancestry into the present in the indigenous village, the Multiethnic Maraka'nà Tekoa, in the southeastern region of Rio de Janeiro city, and a quilombo, the Kilombo Urbano Canto de Conexão, in Pelotas, a city in the extreme south of Rio Grande do Sul. With a feminist anti-colonial approach, the embodied research brings into the field of feminist theories anthropological debates on ethnogenesis, indigenous and Afro-diasporic discussions on reclamation, resumption, and sankofa, emphasizing the importance of self-determination of the notion of body-territory. Challenging the 'extinction' determined by academia and the State of peoples and ways of knowing-doing, we highlight how each group, in its specificity and trajectory, creates routes to resist the colonial-capitalist impulse of life subjugation. Both collectives nurture life in the concrete jungle, sprouting seeds in spirits that multiply stories of struggle and ancestral presence. They present the relationship between the land and the people, the violence, and the resistance.