Consultation Protocols of Indigenous People in Contexts of Environmental Conflicts

Our paper analyzes alternatives to overcome the dynamics of epistemicide through processes of Free, Prior, and Informed Consultation of Indigenous Peoples when exogenous actors act in their territories. The objective is to demonstrate the possibilities of resistance of communities in processes that may affect their lives through legal regulations and the Consultation Protocol of the Xukuru Kariri community, located in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais state, Brazil, where a reparation governance process is underway. The theoretical background is related to the Bio-Necropolitics and Decolonial approach. This is qualitative research, based on engaged study, since the authors develop projects in this territory to support the strengthening of Indigenous peoples' rights. The Consultation Protocol is problematized as an instrument to be observed when carrying out university-community projects and research activities in Indigenous territories.