Abstract
This paper seeks to deal with the advance of Covid-19 in indigenous territories in Brazil, whether urban or rural. To do so, we have gone through a general analysis of the Brazilian government's indigenous policies, comparing bulletins and data from the Special Secretariat of Indigenous Health—Secretaria Especial de Saúde Indígena, an agency linked to the Ministry of Health, as well as data from the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil, the main Brazilian indigenous political movement. Furthermore, we systematize strategies that have been developed and executed by some indigenous peoples in Brazil, undertaken by an exploratory analysis of manifestations of indigenous leaders on the internet, along with actions in the legal sphere, as well as, actions in the indigenous territory. Finally, the monoepistemic character of public policies on the issue is problematized.
Highlights
This paper relies on the advance of Covid-19 in indigenous territories in Brazil,1 whether urban or rural from the beginning of the pandemic period to the end of 2020
Besides Covid-19, indigenous peoples are facing many other pandemics. All of this let us question, for instance, what is the real situation of the native peoples of Brazil regarding this pandemic? What about the defense of our territories, our rights, and upon the intercultural education? What about the health of our population? Why are we sidelined, once again, in relation to the effectiveness of official policies? Why do we remain vulnerable? How will we be after this pandemic? How can we have intercultural educational systems and policies based only on Western knowledge? Not without articulating knowledge needed for indigenous struggle; policies to value indigenous languages; epistemic bilingualism; indigenous epistemologies; considering the ways in which indigenous peoples organize their knowledge; understanding that the grammar of indigenous languages is culture, art and nature
Attention should be drawn to the disparity between the official data collected on the topic presented by Secretaria Especial de Saúde Indígena (SESAI)/Ministério da Saúde (MS) and the data presented by other non-governmental bodies and institutions
Summary
We systematize strategies that have been developed and executed by some indigenous peoples in Brazil, undertaken by an exploratory analysis of manifestations of indigenous leaders on the internet, along with actions in the legal sphere, as well as, actions in the indigenous territory. The virus does not kill birds, bears, any other beings, only humans. Those in panic are the human people and their artificial world, their way of working it is what is in crisis Kiatahè tii mahãdu wna iny raxiwè mah~yre irèhèmy iny tarùmy r~yikèmy, bdè bdè r~yira tule irùmy r~yira kèmy. Ijasò hèka dèysa iny dèè riwymyh~yre, awimy iny ratxikèmy, iny rexibutunymy irùmy iny tabdèd~y~ynanadi r~yikèmy. Tii boho hèka aõni awi rare iny dèè.
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