A trajetória da gestão de recursos comuns na terra indígena Campinas, Katukina (Noke Koî) do estado do Acre, Brasil.

Abstract

One of the powers that enable humans to keep going on and to create new societies is their ability to change their relationships with nature by means of transforming it. However, there is not a single of way of interacting harmonically and originally with nature. Instead, there are many ways of doing that. Considering societies’ interactions with their environment, indigenous culture deserves to be mentioned due to some specificity such as their history with their land, cultural links between members, social organization and unique knowledge. Those aspects help to understand both land and environmental changes triggered by huge buildings/constructions in indigenous areas and sharing of natural resources by distinct human populations. In this context we can mention the changes that took place in the indigenous land Campinas Katukina. This community is under influence of the federal road BR364 and borders both extractive and colonization projects lands besides having traditional medicine manners which are becoming popular in urban centers. Based on this context, this research aims to analyze environmental perception regarding the management of common resources in Katukina (Noke Koî) Community, which is part from Campinas Indigenous Area localized in Acre, Brazil. Intending to comprise the most part of factors influencing community’s decisions, common resources were understood as environmental and intellectual properties. At the end, we have analyzed the awareness of inner organization and community’s autonomy concerning their external relationships. We used semi-structured interviews, Venn’s transversal analysis and diagram and ethnography. We detected alterations in community’s feeding habits once we found low protein content and little amount of vegetable varieties combined with an increase in industrialized products. Because of this, food guarantee depends on acquiring financial resources, which is a topic of discussion as so as community’s autonomy in process. These data can contribute to the development and adaptation of public policies based on inner organization of indigenous groups besides encouraging actions that unify environmental preservation and social development.