A Luta pela autogestão do serviço de saúde indígena: o caso kadiwéu em Mato Grosso do Sul

Abstract

This master's dissertation aims to verify the issues that permeate the notions of health from the indigenous leaders and how they act in front of the communities of the Kadwéu ethnic group, referring to the process and development of indigenous health in the territory. This study will follow a methodology of Case Study, Reverse Ethnography, Engaged Research and Bibliographic Review. Therefore, the survey of theses, theoretical concepts, readings on the subject will be developed and later it shows an ethnography carried out through interviews in two different moments, the initial one that follows a descriptive character carried out in the year 2019 and the second in the year 2022, using Oral History techniques. The interviews with indigenous leaders focused on the process of choosing this important representation of the Indigenous Health District of Mato Grosso do Sul. We hope, therefore, to collaborate for the construction of knowledge about how indigenous leaders are currently occupying positions in government agencies that have actions in indigenous communities. Thus, the justification is given through the experiences of the Kadwéu Indigenous People, of which I am a member and in face of the proposals of assistance to the members of this ethnic community. Therefore, this study brings as an inference the central idea of demystifying and understanding the fight for indigenous health, since for a long time the members of the community only knew the medicine of their people as something connected to nature.