ABSTRACT
When one thinks about a Sanitary Reform as a reform of society, other issues demand attention, as colonization, genocide and racism. Colonization, a form of power that marked the texture of modernity, was organized within regimes of truth and authorizations that legitimize some knowledge to the detriment of others. The lack of clarity and insufficiency of the conceptions of health, that are possible to be build with the native peoples, promote weakenesses in the institutional configuration and the management process of the Unified Health System. Given the invisibility in which indigenous health has been placed in collective health, an account will be made of the experiences of the meeting with Potyguara de Monsignor Tabosa, in the state of Ceará. The ways of living health of the Potyguara express relationships between feeling healthy and being sick, as well as experimenting a world in which the relation with the earth is of belonging and tells about the production of living and health.
KEYWORDS
Health of indigenous Ppeoples; Indigenous health services; Ethnic groups