Abstract
To analyze the strategies undertaken by the government to address the health problem in Boa Vista/Roraima. A study using the microhistory approach, with documentary sources from journalistic material of the 1970s through the triangulation technique: texts, images and context, with analysis from the perspective of the Social World Theory. It was evidenced that the strategies undertaken by the government occurred in favor of the exploration of isolated areas in Roraima that demanded settlement processes, construction of villages and a highway to enable the interconnection of the state with other regions of Brazil, with a smoke screen symbolic effect produced by nurses on indigenous health. There was governmental manipulation, when the symbolic power was unveiled, making it possible to see and believe that nursing needs to guide political issues rather than being ruled.
Highlights
Roraima is located in the Northern Region of Brazil, west of the Greenwich Meridian and is cut by the Equator, being the most northerly state of the Brazilian federation
The 1970s were marked by the context of the military dictatorship with expansion of the state infrastructure, with the opening of the BR-174 highway linking Boa Vista-RR to Manaus-AM, passing through the Waimiri-Atroari indigenous reserve
The documentary sources were two images published in the Jornal Boa Vista, referring to the years 1973 and 1974, as well as literature of adherence in the History of Brazil, Roraima, Health and Nursing
Summary
Roraima is located in the Northern Region of Brazil, west of the Greenwich Meridian and is cut by the Equator, being the most northerly state of the Brazilian federation. It has 1,922 kilometers of border with South American countries, with Venezuela to the north and north-west and the Cooperative Republic of Guyana to the east, limited to the states of Amazonas to the south and west, and Pará to the southeast[1]. In 1973, the President of the Republic Emílio Garrastazu Medici sanctioned Law 6,001/1973 It regulated the legal situation of the Indigenous people and their communities, with the purpose of preserving their culture and integrating them progressively and harmoniously into national communion. The Statute for the Association of Indigenous Defense (ADIBRA) was created, with the purpose of promoting cultural and assistance activities, in order to contribute to the referral of the indigenous problem[2] and in the following two years the BR-174 was inaugurated, having throughout the section of colonization projects
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