Indigenous Territory land of resistance

Abstract

Since 1500, indigenous peoples have been fighting for their right to exist, an existence that is called into question every day by denying them the possession of their territories and with that the impossibility of reproducing their way of life. The advance of agricultural frontiers, as well as the retrogression of environmental laws and the dismantling of environmental inspection bodies served as catalysts for the increase in violence against native peoples. The resistance of these peoples is secular, and daily, a process in which the concept of territory is more than a geographical space, as it guards the history, origin, and life of each people. The non-valuation of indigenous life and the hyper-valuation of land only as a commodity are narratives that are repeated in a continuum since colonial Brazil and that urgently need an end point for the future of indigenous peoples and the entire Brazilian biosphere.