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The struggle in the territory traditionally occupied by agro-extractive peasant families has always been marked by disputes between loggers, farmers and land grabbers, who compete against each other for natural resources in the Amazon. In Pará, despite the creation of collective agro-extractive settlements, there is a strong land concentration, which worsens when it incorporates elements that increase land disputes with the natural resources of the forests. This article aims to analyze the main challenges faced by families at Gleba Joana Peres II, from the land regularization process to the delimitation of their territory. The analyzes focused on the creation of the State Agroextractivist Settlement Projects (PEAEX) Dorothy Stang and PEAEX Joana Peres. The aim is to investigate the history of the area, in addition to carrying out a survey on the socioeconomic, production, income and organization of families, with the aim of identifying their trajectories and perspectives. During the research, a large number of social organizations were identified that built collective political actions with public agents, a network of articulation of movements and with peasant families. The local organization of families allowed the construction of repertoires to achieve land regularization, which is very significant. However, there is still a fragility in the engagement of families, which is reflected in the low adherence to trade unions, and of the social movement, which weakens the political-pedagogical formative process of collective social actions, within the scope of the dispute over territories, natural resources, maintenance of the traditional way of life. The methodology used was the case study, based on qualitative research, with field collection at two moments, in the years 2021 and 2022. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]