Indigenous peoples, territorial identities and fragilized territorialities in northern Amapá, Brazil.

The purpose of this paper is to discuss how "Galibi do Oiapoque", "Galibi Marworono", "Palikur", and "Karipuna" build their place-territories where they exert territorial vigilance and develop their territorial identities independently of multiple interactions between these indigenous peoples. Research data was collected on bibliography, news reports, documents, association's and ONG's reunion transcripts and interviews. It is concluded that there is a place-territory proper to these indigenous peoples that is superposed in the Brazil-French Guiana frontier; there is a strong territorial identity, even if with fragilized territorialities facing spatial tensions decurrent from inadequate interventions and the absence of adequate indigenouscentered policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]