The revaluation of Brazilian indigenous heritage in face of climate change

Abstract

The article intends to present a debate on the interrelationships between indigenous peoples, indigenous heritages and climate changes that have forced humanity, throughout history, to create adaptive mechanisms to overcome the contingencies of environmental imbalances, both in the long run and in the short term. Although the text discusses different temporal and geographic points of view, we focus more attention on climate change over the last two centuries, which some authors have called the Anthropocene, with special emphasis on Brazil cases. Accordingly, we present how the heritage of indigenous matrix has been used as elements of resilience and struggles not only political and cultural, but also within the scope of valuing and maintaining their territories as areas of conservation and environmental sustainability.