The objective of this text is to perform an analysis on the defense of territories by women from Southern Brazil, from epistemologies that germinate through the engagement and life trajectories of these women, having as background the rural environment and agriculture: settled of the reform agrarian and quilombolas. Will be approached knowledge built, molded and safeguarded by women, such as the experience of medicinal plants with herbs, present in some settlements of the Landless Rural Workers Movement, or the work of quilombola women, gathering field experiences lived by the researchers in the extreme south of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. We intend to make connections between these reports and the criticisms made by communitarian, black and postcolonial feminisms that problematize the geopolitical and historical processes of Western colonization and diasporic relationships, forming other flows in the face of social and political configurations to some extent shared.