A questão indígena sob a ditadura militar: do imaginar ao dominar

Abstract

[EN] The present paper aims to think about the otherness as a concept. Establishing a parallelism between imagination and domination, this exposition intends to reflect about how before to impose the dominion upon the otherness, in the fight for hegemony in a colonial/national context as is Brazil, first it is needed to imagine that it deserve ontologically the dominion, way of thinking that has some strong doses of violence. For that reason, this research was made about the indigenous issue in the dictatorship context, because it offers optimal framework for this reflection. By the end, we can see how from the political/economical powers and the interethnical conflict there were dehumanization logic about the indigenous, something that legitimizes a praxis of predation upon the natives population. The used methodology follows the steps of the national media, also the political speeches, testimonies and reports.