Summary
The city is an indigenous ancestral territory, the foundation of the indigenous perspective, rooted in ancestry, which urban cultures oppose. This research focuses on the contribution of indigenous peoples to urban knowledge based on being, existing, resisting, indigenous movements, with emphasis on the field of law, as the dynamic of expropriation is supported by legislation (Albert; Kopenawa, 2023). Violence against body-territories (Baniwa, Kaingang, Mandulão, 2023) and indigenous sources of knowledge is historical, and uncertainties were highlighted in the context of the last political cycle (2016-2022), marked by geno-ethno-ecocides. The legal uncertainty generated by the Temporal Framework thesis and the rupture of the constitutional pact by the National Congress disregards and criminalizes indigenous land struggles. This investigation is structured around the right to life, the right to territory, and questioning the right to the future in the face of expulsions, violence, depletion, impacts on cultural heritage, soil, water, and indigenous life. A call is made to the white man for the ritual dance (Kambeba, 2018), as indigenous genocide is the greatest numerical holocaust of all time, a colonial-territorial planning. The European invasion of Abya Yala and Pindorama enslaved indigenous bodies, exploited nature, and destroyed knowledge and ways of life. In this context, the question arises: what are the reflections on thinking and making the city that can be understood from indigenous struggles and worldviews? Indigenous peoples guided cities through original knowledge of territory and natural environment, ways of existence grounded in the ethics of reciprocity and cosmic rights, with their presence in urban centers being a sociocultural and political power (Baniwa, 2023). However, in the absence of indigenous debate and deliberation in urban projects and processes, in an exclusionary and exterminatory logic, the objective was to develop reflections for thinking and making the city from their struggles and worldviews. For this, bibliographical and documentary research is adopted, guided by demand anthropology (Segato, 2021), focusing on indigenous lands, territories, demarcations, takeovers, historical and contemporary data, sources related to indigenous and indigenist law. Experiences with ethnic-cultural diversity are brought from different regions and contexts of the country, in different territories, all indigenous ancestors, which allow understanding the various forms of articulation of body-territories and strategies for confronting spatial practices, normative and legal production. An indigenous community, a city with a significant indigenous contingent, and an indigenous land, Tekoá Guajayvi (RS), the Centro de Referência Indígena in Miranda (MS), and a stretch of the Parque Indígena do Xingu (MT), respectively, adopting analysis criteria systematized by the creation of jurisprudential categories. It is based on a critical, cosmopolitical, poetic, and plural dimension, and the results are oxygenations of epistemological positions that arise from the power pattern and the opposition of the city to nature, principles to inspire future planning, indigenous public policies, indigenist and non-homogenizing and counter-colonial jurisdictions. The search for ancestral territory is based on a legal, executive, and juridical basis. I arrive at poeti(cidades), which assume a principled and guiding posture, based on the reflections elaborated, and are founded on the context, dignity, and indigenous struggles, in their cosmopoetic experiences, for justice.