Rivers of knowledge: demarcating science with Indigenous voices

Abstract

Part of this text resulted in a lecture presented at the opening of the 20th National Science and Technology Week of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in October 2023. It is the reflection of an Indigenous historian on her professional trajectory, considering the racism in force in the scientific community and the paths that the Indigenous knowledge rivers have traveled to demarcate writing as a field for securing the rights guaranteed in the 1988 Federal Constitution, constituting a space of resistance for the continuity of the Brazilian Indigenous peoples’ plural existences.