The ATL turned 20 years old and brought together representatives of indigenous peoples from all over the country in Brasilia from April 22 to 26.
The defense of the right to land, demand for new constituencies and the end of the so-called temporary framework were part of the main discussions.
Camp organizers encouraged the villages to articulate participation in the event in their territories, which this year had the theme “Our Framework is Ancestral: We were always here.”
Mainly, the indigenous people are protesting against a law that established the temporal framework for the jurisdiction of their domains.
According to the thesis, which the powerful rural sector managed to approve in Congress, the natives only have the right to the constituency of the lands that were in their possession on October 5, 1988, the date of promulgation of the Federal Constitution.
Such legislation is considered an affront to the constitutional text and the communities question the thesis in the Supreme Federal Court, which had already overturned that understanding.
They ask that the law be declared unconstitutional and suspended until the final trial in court.
Likewise, Aboriginal people demand an end to violence against their heritage, in cases of extraction of natural resources such as timber, mining, illegal hunting and fishing, and property invasions linked to land grabbing.
As expected, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva received a delegation of 40 indigenous leaders who delivered a letter to claim rights to their patrimonial lands affected by the controversial transitional thesis.
In addition to the president, throughout the week, leaders of the Legislative and Judicial branches also received the letter.
Among the points of the document, 19 are directed to the Executive Branch and emphasize the time frame.
Also in the additions addressed to the Legislative Branch, the indigenous people request the withdrawal of processing of proposals such as one that deals with compensation for owners with areas on land to be demarcated as indigenous.
Regarding the Judiciary, the content requests, in particular, the declaration of unconstitutionality of the law that addresses the temporal theory for the jurisdiction of native possessions.
“(Lula) we are already in the second year of Government and his promises on demarcations are still pending,” the letter highlights.
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