Lessons from environmental impacts on indigenous communities in contemporary Brazil

Abstract

For a long time the indigenous issue was focused on indigenous figure itself, i.e., the use of your workforce, in questions of your human nature and the impasse can be considered or not Brazilian citizens. Currently the objects of study and methodological procedures have been extended and the focus of the indigenous issue was transferred from the identity of these peoples to the conservation of biodiversity, global and regional, territorial demarcation, ethnocide, exploitation of their land, violence, among others. All due study aims to analyze elements about the environmental impacts triggered in indigenous communities with the redefinition of their territories and the deployment of large buildings, especially the hydroelectric and mining companies. The study used the methodological procedure investigative and research-bibliographic jurisprudence.