Indigenous Peoples in Transit: narratives of displacement, identity, and belonging

Abstract

This article offers an autobiographical reflection on the multiple ways of being Indigenous in urban contexts. Based on the author's personal experience, it explores the tensions experienced by Indigenous subjects living outside the village, marked by territorial displacement, symbolic erasure, and struggles for recognition. The text analyzes how schools, universities, language, and hegemonic discourses produce silencing and impose rigid models of belonging. In contrast, the city is approached as a possible place of reclaiming, where practices of ancestry and resistance are reinscribed. Writing, in this process, emerges as a tool for affirmation, memory, and identity reconstruction in the face of coloniality.