“O FUTURO É ANCESTRAL”

reflexões sobre o Movimento Indígena e a instituição do primeiro Ministério dos Povos Indígenas no Brasil

Abstract

For centuries, indigenous peoples have articulated in different ways to wage their struggles against a Eurocentric and colonizing political and social model that has silenced them since colonization in Brazil. The indigenous movement played a key role in winning their rights, culminating in the establishment of the first Ministry of Indigenous Peoples. In this sense, the article aims to analyze the contribution of the indigenous movement in the construction of indigenous rights and policies in Brazil, reflecting on the contemporary context and perspectives of collective action by social movements. For this, it presents a qualitative methodology, of a theoretical nature, in which Bibliographic and Documental Research was used as search methods. It is concluded that the aforementioned social movement enabled the conquest of indigenous policies until the present day, while the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples represents a milestone in the history of these peoples, who historically faced processes of marginalization and exploitation.