Perceptions and reflections on culture, education & development: the world indigenous peoples' games

This study's objective was to analyze the first World Games of Peoples' Indigenous, from spectators who went to the event, indigenous and non-indigenous, to describe their perceptions of the games' political and social issues. The research followed the tradition of ethnomethodological studies and its qualitative perspective to understand how respondents interpret and build the social world. Findings indicate that the games brought the global community closer to the indigenous reality. Even so, there was a lack of autonomy in the formulation of the event by indigenous leaders. The possibility of the event serving to obscure the reality of the violence faced by indigenous peoples in Brazil was also present in the reports.