Índios de Papel – Construção discursiva do preconceito sobre o indígena no Brasil

Abstract

This study aims to present the historical construction of the colonizer thinking on indigenous peoples, using the speeches presented in the main Luso-Brazilian literary as research object, from which point the consolidation strategies of the hegemonic thought through ideological indoctrination of catechetical activity, oppression, language ban, theft, demoralization of indigenous ancestral culture, identity denial and the reproduction of these concepts under the progressive flag that acts in non-indigenous society. The purpose of this article is to go through the chronological process of the speech of crystallization the thought about indigenous cultures and ethnic homogenization, inviting reflection on the symbolic power that emanates from the speech, on the assumption that the speech acts as a construction tool of the hegemonic order, preventing the presence of indigenous ethnic and cultural diversity.