DOI of the published preprint https://doi.org/10.36920/esa33-1_02
The actors and disputes of the 1999 Parliamentary Committee of Investigation on the National Indian Foundation (Funai) (Brazil)
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https://doi.org/10.1590/SciELOPreprints.13454Keywords:
National Congress of Brazil, Chamber of Deputies, Indigenous peoples’ rights, Indigenous Lands, MiningAbstract
The Parliamentary Committee of Investigation of the National Indian Foundation (Funai), held in 1999 in the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil, aimed to examine the criteria for demarcating Indigenous lands (ILs) due to the alleged establishment of reserves without any justification. In the decades that followed, groups opposed to the demarcation of ILs attributed importance to this commission report and used it as a basis for other actions. In this context, the aim of this paper is to analyze the main actors and the debates that took place in this investigation, as well as to point out continuities and discontinuities in relation to the actions to oppose ILs before and after this commission. The research was fundamentally based on the analysis of the content of the meetings through the Chamber of Deputies Archive. It is noteworthy that 76% of the members of this investigation were parliamentarians from the north of the country, in a clear regional over-representation, and the main disputes concerned ILs in the states of Roraima and Amapá.
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