Autonomia indígena: a perspectiva Mbyá Guarani em Santa Maria

Abstract

This research aims to achieve an analysis of route of indigenous rights and its implications for the autonomy of the Mbyá Guarani people in the city of Santa Maria as citizens rights, based on the historical view of tutorage until reaching constitucional rights through a remark conquest of the village Guaviraty. The objective of the research, from this view is to understand the legal definition of autonomy and how it intertwines with the Amerindian Mbyá Guarani vision. Through ethnographic method was carried a note of Mbyá Guarani route the struggle for land in what is now Guaviraty village, with a look at the connection of the concept of autonomy and the indigenous role in the search for ñande reko Guarani. The Mbyá worldview and its implications in the struggle for land manifest to conclude that indigenous autonomy Mbyá Guarani in Santa Maria is related to a search for recognition as Guarani people and as subjects of rights, linking these elements in order to achieve the Iko Tema(live in freedom), translated into a search for this meaning of life from his role in the struggle for indigenous rights.