INDIGENOUS EPISTEMOLOGICAL PROTAGONISM

WAYS OF ARTICULATION, ORGANIZATION AND LEGITIMATION IN THE STRUGGLE FOR ORIGINAL RIGHTS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CIVIL-MILITARY DICTATORSHIP

Abstract

It is undeniable that the period of the civil-military dictatorship represents much more than a speed bump in the Brazilian historical path, since the violence committed against indigenous peoples is the mark that remains in the logic of several original subjectivities, unfortunately unknown by most of the population. Contemporary critical debate has been paramount in taking responsability in reflecting on the erasures and silencing experienced by native peoples in an extremely complex and obscure moment: the military regime. However, the objective here is not to deepen notes on dispossession, land grabbing, denial of cultures or the genocide that affected them, but to present an overview of how indigenous groups began to organize themselves, articulating different regions and ethnicities, initiating a national mobilization, becoming a pan-indigenous movement, with an educational character, for rescuing and re-signifying the formation of consciousness of indigenous peoples, creating a new logic of autonomy and self-determination in their ways of being and living.