AN EXPERIENCE OF SOCIAL CARTOGRAPHY

WITH THE APINAJÉ INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF TOCANTINS STATE

Abstract

This article aims to report the importance of the collective construction of maps and models, as a way of empowering information about the territory of traditional communities or indigenous peoples. The fact that these peoples are forgotten by the state, which ends up having their essential rights denied and their lands invaded. As a way of learning, our internship made it possible to build spatial elements to strengthen their lands. We learn and will demonstrate the importance of the meaning of the land and its importance for the Apinajés. Therefore, in general terms, the objective is to demonstrate the social cartography in the Apinajé indigenous people of the state of Tocantins. Thus, we can prove the sense that mapping serves to guarantee, permanence, possession, management of the use of the territory and strengthening of culture.