National indigenous women’s articulation and its engagement with the state

Abstract

The article discusses different moments in the indigenous women’s movement at a national level, with emphasis on the period when the March of Indigenous Women was consolidated as the highest deliberative event and when the National Articulation of Indigenous Women Warriors of Ancestry was created. It is pointed out that the indigenous women’s network follows an insurgent political model against the centralization of power, operates through processes of opposition and composition with the state and that it is through the struggle as the “fourth power” that they sustain their efforts to occupy spaces, sign away rights, confront the ruralist caucus and avoid “legislated genocide”.