A influência das políticas públicas na construção das identidades de populações tradicionais e indígenas

Since the implementation in Brasil of the first Protected Areas with the objetctive of promoting sustainable use of natural resources and development of local peoples it is getting common the emergence among the last of claims toward the State for recognition of their indigenous identity. The appearance of those cases coincide in time with de evidence of the distinctive threatment by the State toward indigenous and non-indigenous people. Taking it in account, the reviewing of the literature on identity provide an explanation of the association between both aspects, specially highlighting the role of public policies in the construction of the ethnic identities of those peoples.