(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2018-04) FERNANDES, Fernando Roque
Historically, indigenous peoples have been uniting in the fight for rights in relation to the surrounding community. Many groups, using specific strategies, have developed processes of political emergencies in the struggle for the recognition of their differences. Ever since the Constitution of 1988 and due to important social phenomena many groups began to have their human rights legally recognized. We believe that the indigenous and pro-indigenous associations and organizations that emerged from the second half of the twentieth century devised particular strategies that resulted in the recognition of the specificities of the indigenous peoples vis-à-vis the Brazilian State. In our view, ethnogenesis and ethnicity phenomena in Brazilian history.
