Decolonialidade indígena e pensamento rizomático:

uma reflexão a partir de memórias indígenas

Abstract

In this article, we aim to raise discussions about the indigenous issue from a decolonial perspective. For this, we will make use of narratives and memories present in the writing of indigenous authors, around the history of this encounter with Europeans and the remnants of this relationship. In this sense, we intend to approach indigenous writings that generate concerns and reflections, within the perspective of the rhizome concept presented by Deleuze and Guatarri (1995), taken here as a possibility of establishing relationships between pre-existing knowledge and other knowledge. Otherwise, the detachment of linear thinking, of the colonizer, and opening, as roots, as branches, to other perspectives of the same history, which, due to this expectation, enables new crossings, recognition of alterity and departure from the dominant arboreal model. So, we conclude that indigenous peoples, from the first contact with the colonizer, are harassed, attacked and suffer attempts to erase them: this is part of coloniality, a thought of single “root”. Thence the relevance of the continuous movements of dissociation from coloniality, towards the recognition of subjects, rhizomatic thinking, indigenous decoloniality.