The purpose of this article is discussing the questions that appears from the increscent presence of indigenous population in the urban centers. As we go through the paradoxes that compose this scenario, we are provoked to wean the stigmatized look about indigenous issues that lasts in the society. The conceptual instruments proposed by Philosophy of Difference authors, as well as the current formulations of anthropology about the amerindian perspectivism, lead us to reflect how the indigenous populations had experienced the city, creating a singular relationship witch transform it in an engagement. Lastly, this article launches questions about the allurements that the contemporaneous presents, which require collective efforts for expansion of live possibilities.
indigenous; urbane; difference; engagement