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The Tupinamb\u00e1\u2019s identity is being increasingly bureaucratized by public administration and is constantly being questioned by public and private agents to deny the Tupinamb\u00e1\u2019s constitutional land rights. In the course of the still ongoing process of the demarcation of the Indigenous Territory Tupinamb\u00e1 de Oliven\u00e7a, indigenous inhabitants are facing a plethora of civil actions, and Tupinamb\u00e1 leaders are being persecuted and criminalized by the police and the judiciary. This article exposes the legal intricacies of possessory actions against indigenous people in Brazil and discusses the different acts and attitudes of the actors of the Brazilian \u2018juridical field\u2019 as regards the indigenous rights. 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