The designation of the indigenous people at the integrative relations of statements law 6.001/73

Abstract

This text brings an analysis, in the theoretical perspective of the Semantics of Enunciation, about the mode how the name indigenous people is designated by the State in Law 6.001/73. As material of analysis we take the Law 6.001/73 that institutes the statute of indigenous people. We can to say that the integrative relations and the articulation procedures, rewriting and of Semantics Domains of Determination, among others concepts mobilized in the analyzes, give an enunciative functioning to read of Law by which the State meant the name indigenous people, designating it like primitive, Brazilian, outside the national communion – not citizen –, meant him as wild, tribal, and legally designated it, generically, how unable, so that the designation  of indigenous by State Brazilian in the legislation reminds the ethnocentrism characteristic of the supremacy of colonizer about the colonized, evoking the memorable of western civilizations