INDIGENOUS CULTURE AND NATIONAL IDENTITY

Abstract

The idea of a national identity was being built, there was no Brazil as we know it today. This notion began to solidify between the years 1940 and 1950. People identified where they were born, where their family was rooted, not by their nationality. The country's history was and is built through a continuous process of inclusion-exclusion, which causes different social groups and identities to continue in a process of searching for their affirmation, especially the indigenous and the Afro-Brazilian population. The methodology used in the construction of this article was the bibliographical research and field research, both acting as a psychologist in the mental health group in indigenous Jaraguá village in São Paulo, as well as visits to Guarani villages in Paraty, Rio de Janeiro and interviews with three indigenous people of the Guarani, Pitaguary and Tibiriça ethnic groups.