Environmental heritage and cultural diversity: : Milestones in the struggle for indigenous peoples' rights in Brazil (2011-2014)

• Autor(a) principal: Martinez, Paulo Henrique
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Estudos Históricos (Rio de Janeiro)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/reh/article/view/89158
• topic: Environmental History; Heritage; Indigenous Populations; PNGATI; Environmental justice; Historia Ambiental; Patrimonio; Poblaciones Indígenas; PNGATI; Justicia ambiental; História Ambiental; Patrimônio; Populações Indígenas

Examination of intertwining environmental heritage and cultural diversity in the mobilization and political organization of indigenous populations for constitutional rights and specific public policies for Indigenous Lands in Brazil, between 2011 and 2014. The sources are daily press news and institutional, public and private documents. The data and information gathered here have allowed the identification of new impulses in the struggles for indigenous peoples' rights both in Brazil and in South American countries. The proposal for Constitutional Amendment No. 215, the National Policy for Environmental and Territorial Management of Indigenous Lands, and the debates for reforming the Forest Code catalyzed national and regional attention and disputes in Brazil during the first government of President Dilma Rousseff. The historical situation of the daily life and rights of indigenous peoples underwent few substantive changes in the period studied, but it fed political and social expectations involving the management of Indigenous Lands, demarcated and yet to be demarcated, in which the environmental and cultural heritage emerged as strategic in the orientation of government action, contained in the PNGATI, and in indigenous resistance for the affirmation of rights and ethnic and cultural identities.