Organização político-cultural e interculturalidade na gestão dos territórios indígenas para o Bem viver no Rio Negro-AM

Abstract

The thesis makes an analysis on the mobilization / political-cultural organization of indigenous from Rio Negro leaders, members of associations affiliated to the Federation of Indigenous Organizations of Rio Negro (FOIRN), the body representing indigenous peoples of this region, around the making of proposals for the management / care and sustainability / good living of indigenous territories. These datas and files were collected using multimethod from the perspective of qualitative research, with the conduction of semi-structured interviews with members of associations linked to FOIRN; through narrative interviews with leaders who participated in the creation of the indigenous movement in the rio Negro and the Federation; the documentary research and observation in events as native assemblies. The data analysis occurred from the coding and categorization of information, carrying out a descriptive, theoretical and interpretive content analysis. The research results indicate that the proposals made by indigenous leaders have interculturalism as premise, in essence the knowledge dialogues, requiring multiple pathways and partnerships between social agents and institutions that cross national borders. The knowledge alliance reaffirms the ethnic identity and promotes redefinition of what is present in the region, even though is not indigenous, but because of the history of cash and domination, becomes part of the lives of indigenous people, including the demand for formal schooling; the technology assets and information; the income and other alternatives that coexist with traditional indigenous practices and cannot be seen as "extenders" of their cultures. The uniqueness of the proposed management of territories, structured by leaders who work in indigenous associations and FOIRN, is to have viability over the years, the different epistemologies dialogue, and even conflicting, consolidating projects and exchanged translated knowledge, worldviews and attitudes the social, economic, environmental, political and other in the rio Negro. The valuation projects of indigenous culture; protection of territories; strengthening of indigenous organizations and sustainable alternative sources of income are constituent part of the Indian proposal for management of territories, outlined since the official demarcation of the five lands in the upper rio Negro, in 1998, which marks the mobilization / organization of these leaders, guided by the assumptions of autonomy and role as a necessary condition for the consolidation of an indigenous management, mobilized by indigenous knowledge in a process that does not exclude dialogue with other knowledge arising from inter-ethnic relations in the past and present, once those are prospects which project the future of indigenous peoples of the rio Negro.