Indigenous movements in Abya Yala:

horizons in the Struggles for terrorialities

Abstract

This article aims to highlight indigenous movements from the historical and societal framework in Brazil, and therefore inscribed in the list of their identity minorities to which they have a vital relationship with the territory where they live, establishing fundamental territorialities with it. In order to achieve this, we will carry out bibliographical research based on a decolonial perspective in the light of Latin American authors such as Enrique Dussel, Darcy Ribeiro, Gersem Luciano, Ivone Lixa, Débora Ferrazo, Carlos Walter Porto-Gonçalves, Anibal Quijano, Sáskia Sassen and other critical exponents, together with the relevance of the Federal Constitutions of Brazil (1988), Bolivia (2009) and Ecuador (2008), respectively. The themes discussed permeate the human rights and territoriality of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, under a context of violence and exclusion operated by the modern-colonial world-system through a state guided by this Eurocentric colonial matrix. Finally, the paper points to the need for a Latin American critique of the Brazilian state, which we believe needs to recognize indigenous autonomy and the rights of nature, among other things, as a way of guaranteeing the exercise of their territoriality.