Prejudice is still an obstacle. Living in urban centers without hiding one's ancestry and references is still a struggle for more than 315,000 indigenous people, according to data from the latest census by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). The number represents 49% of the country's total indigenous population. “There is still strong prejudice and discrimination. And the indigenous people who live in the cities are really the ones who face situations like this on a daily basis, constantly”. In all of Brazil, São Paulo is the city with the largest indigenous population, with around 12 thousand inhabitants; followed by São Gabriel da Cachoeira, in Amazonas, with just over 11,000 and Salvador, with over 7,500 Indians. Anthropologist Lúcia Helena Rangel, from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, points out that since colonization, the indigenous presence in cities has been constant, but in past decades, the city was a forbidden space. “They went to the cities and didn't say they were indigenous. They hid the origin and also hid the cultural references, so to speak”, he explains. According to her, the fear of discrimination and reprisals from the former Indian Protection Service prevented the indigenous people from presenting themselves as such. - Concept: ©MONOGRAMA - #GUARDIAN78 - Geo Location: https://bit.ly/3uM6QP9
