Abstract

The well-being of the indigenous peoples, i.e., the articulation between the rights to land, to water, to nature in harmony with local cultures, to dignity and to life, are constantly wounded in Brazil. In Pernambuco, located in the Brazilian Northeast, a state that congregates a significant indigenous population, their sacred territories are the target of bloody conflicts between rural producers, landowners, miners and loggers, and the traditional peoples, under the naïve, colonial and increasingly permissive negligence of the Brazilian State. Before this setting, this article aims to discuss the case of the Xucuru indigenous people, located in the city of Pesqueira (PE), in the Brazilian Northeast, in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and its reverberations not only in guaranteeing the rights of the indigenous peoples in the country, but also regarding the contours that the fights by other ethnic groups in Pernambuco gain from the results of the plea. The proposal here is to think, alongside the indigenous peoples, about the particularities of the fight for the Well-Being among the communities in Pernambuco and how the Xucuru case allows for a decolonial critique to a universalist conceptualization in the field of Law and in the actualization of Human Rights.

Keywords:
Indigenous peoples; Decolonial Thought; Law; Interculturality