Políticas públicas e povos indígenas: uma análise do impacto do programa Bolsa Família entre os Akwẽ-Xerente

Abstract

The history of Akwẽ-Xerente is marked by fights and conflicts with the farmers of the area of the old north of Goiás that wanna occupy his/her territory to expand the livestock. The positioning of the State oscillated among agreements that were not accomplished and repression to the natives with the intention of integrating them in the society, to use they labor and to appropriating of their lands. The development projects already implanted in the area of current Tocantins brought several impacts social, environmental and cultural to the people Xerente, that started to demand government intervention for to have access to the basic social rights. Concerning the indigenist legislations, we identified several progress in the sense of they consider the Brazilian natives' ethnic specificities, in practice, it is still necessary to execute those rights, because, they has several problems in the execution of those politics. In reason of the situation of social vulnerability that several natives from the whole Brazil are inserted by the shortage of natural resources that before they guaranteed the survival and sustenance of that people, many of them were inserted in the program of transfer of income entitled Programs Bolsa Família. The general objective of this research is to analyze the impact of PBF in the reality of Akwẽ-Xerente, considering the aspects of the ethnic diversity in subject. The adopted methodology was based in a qualitative approach, starting from the field research. The analysis of results identified changes in the gender relationship and in the warranty of the access to foods, not always of quality, that demands the need of nutritional orientation. Besides, we verified that the team of the social attendance needs to perfect the service and social attendance to the families indigenous beneficiaries.