Dossier “Indigenous people: history, culture and resistance”

When looking at the Latin American reality of the present time, we can perceive some urgencies that emanate from processes of violence that were built through the relationship between power and coloniality, which echoed during the last decades and in the present time have intensified. Analyzing issues that directly or indirectly touch on issues related to indigenous peoples in the spaces of the academy requires a series of considerations, mainly because writing as we know it through western culture was used to build an imaginary that significantly contributed to dehumanization, marginalization and violence. against these peoples during the construction of the nation state in Brazil. Historiography from the 1970s onwards, specifically through the New Indigenous History, contributes significantly to making another look at the production of history in relation to native peoples possible.

Thus, understanding the complexity of indigenous trajectories in Brazil and throughout Latin America, the present dossier seeks to corroborate with the new historiographical perspectives about native populations, both present and in the past. At the moment when legislation such as the Temporal Framework is discussed in Brazil, this call for works seeks to collaborate with the rupture of the silencing and exclusion imposed on these historical characters. Thus, it interests not only narratives linked to life in villages, but also in urban space. After all, it is urgent to question stereotypes and recognize indigenous people as an active part of our society, envisioning their academic, militant and political action.

These are suggested approaches:

Indigenous people and urban space;
The impact of the pandemic on native communities;
The Timeframe and its unfolding;
Archaeological activity and indigenous history;
Original cultures;
Artistic production (cinema, plastic arts, crafts, etc.);
Resistance and oppression;
The indigenous person in museums;
New methods and historiographical approaches;
Indigenous peoples in the period of the Military Dictatorship and in the Transitional Justice;
Decoloniality and studies on indigenous history.