Colonization on indigenous women

Reflection on cares of the body

Abstract

This article seeks to present a reflection, starting from the point of view of an indigenous woman, an activist who defends indigenous and women 's rights, interpretively and from an indigenous women' s perspective. Our aim is to point out how actions of colonization, starting from the churches violated the right to cultural practices of Baniwa women, in the context of caring of the body, justified by "taboos and things of the devil", which is the result of violent contact with the indigenous peoples. For that, a reflection is necessary, starting from the statements of women interviewed, calling attention to the silent practice of violence that violated the right to use millennial knowledge and indigenous science. In the end, we leave the message: to what extent churches are good or bad in women's lives, reflecting this normalization of practices in indigenous communities.