Os índios brasileiros e o Serviço de Proteção aos Índios: a atuação de Lyrio Arlindo do Vale (1942-1945)

• Autor(a) principal: Rosa, Roberta Cristina Silva da
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: [e-mail]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/18183
• topic: Service Indians; Indigenous Policy; Identity; Representation; Lyrio Arlindo do Vale Protection; Serviço de Proteção aos Índios; Política indigenista; Representação; Identidade; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA::HISTORIA DO BRASIL

Lyrio Arlindo do Vale, chief of the Tembé Indians, civilized citizen, protector of the indigenous peoples of Brazil, critical to the actions of the Indian Protection Service, sought to insert ourselves standards "rational" and modern Brazilian society. Between the years 1942- 1945, the period analyzed here, Lyrio do Vale tried to highlight the indigenous policy of President Getulio Vargas government, highlighting its civilized Indian qualities, the desire of Indians to contribute to the progress of the nation through work, and denouncing the actions of the Indian agents. The Indian Protection Service was divided among locate indigenous peoples, sedentarizá them and incorporate them into society as national workers. When Lyrio Arlindo do Vale came to be perceived as different, their indigenous identity began to be challenged by the SPI, which did not understand that a man can have more than one identity. This work seeks to analyze the political culture of the Protection Service Indians, political strategies built by Lyrio Arlindo do Vale and the construction of identity and the power of representations of this subject and the clashes between the ways of thinking of Lyrio and design Protection Service to Indians.