Uma geopolítica Rio Negrina: território, culturas e sociodiversidade indígenas no alto Rio Negro – Amazonas

Abstract

The traditional peoples of the Amazon, especially the different indigenous peoples, maintain a peculiar relationship with nature. Nature is the great house, the “common home” in which indigenous people derive their sustenance and subsidize their needs. These people have used nature's resources for thousands of years for the benefit of their communities, but respecting their limits and the times that the environment requires. This relationship involves affection, thus establishing a sacred relationship, as part of cosmogonies, respect for nature is a constitutive element of sociability. This is because indigenous people obtain their physical and spiritual nutrition from the natural environment and contrary to what is seen in non-indigenous society, extractionis understood as a necessity and treated with respect. All this sociability is permeated by the actions of indigenous leaders, who at their base maintain a geopolitics, a way of dealing with situations and actions that harm or help their actions. The textthus presents aspects of the daily lives of the indigenous peoples of the Alto Rio Negro, a border and more distant region in the extreme north of Brazil, presenting who the people there are, and how they operate in their networks.