Banca de DEFESA: Luana Menezes Lira

THE KRENAK PRISON: FUNAI'S INDIGENIST POLICY DURING THE MILITARY DICTATORSHIP IN BRAZIL

Indian people. Military dictatorship. Krenak Prison. Criminalization

Throughout the civil-military dictatorship in Brazil, the rights of indigenous communities

were continually disrespected. State policy, characterized by

disrespect and even open opposition to physical and cultural diversity, if

manifested itself through various forms of violence inflicted on these people. The goal

general objective of the work is to analyze the indigenous policy developed by FUNAI management,

during the years in which it was under the control of the civil-military dictatorship in Brazil,

considering the permanences and ruptures with the old forms of control of the people

indigenous people. The Krenak Prison was then created in 1967, a project institution, which came

consolidate a new form of indigenous policy, but which is influenced by other

periods, still bringing colonialism and assimilationism into their activities.

Indigenous people from various parts of the country began to serve sentences for two categories of

crimes: concrete crimes (provided for in the penal code); and subjective crimes (they hurt the

social moralism). Arrests also occurred to reprimand leaders

indigenous people, who stood against the political-economic attacks of the regime and who

they resisted the process of nationalization of their communities. So, the present thesis,

considered that the criminalization of indigenous people was used as an instrument

controlling and punitive, for the indigenous policy developed by FUNAI among the

1960s and 1980s.