Tutelage reversed: towards an ethics of indigenous protagonismIn Brazil, the last three decades have been marked by a growing movement of indigenous organization and participation in public life. This process is the result of intense political transformations under way ever since the 1988 Federal Constitution, which acquired an unprecedented dimension with the creation of the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples in 2023. In this text, I present an analysis of these transformations, focusing especially on the period of re-democratization and the effects of the constitutional text on indigenous realities and indigenism. The objective is to discuss the effective conditions for greater indigenous autonomy through a reflective exercise articulated across multiple temporalities - past, present and future - regarding wardship, the Indigenous Movement and indigenous citizenship.
Keywords:
Tutelage; Indigenous Protagonism; Indigenous Citizenship