Os atores e as disputas da CPI da Funai de 1999

The Parliamentary Committee of Investigation of the National Indian Foundation, held in 1999 in the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil, aimed to examine the criteria for demarcating Indigenous lands (ILs) due to the alleged establishment of reserves without any justification. In the following decades, groups opposed to the demarcation of ILs attributed importance to this commission report and used it as a basis for other actions. Thus, this study aimed to analyze the main actors and the debates that took place in this investigation and to point out continuities and discontinuities regarding the actions to oppose ILs before and after this commission. The research was fundamentally based on the analysis of the content of the meetings on the Chamber of Deputies Archive. The Parliamentary Committee of Investigation is shown to have served the interests of Amazonian economic elites linked to mining and agriculture in an attempt to slow down demarcations, exhibiting limited media and regulatory impact, yet relevant for the articulation of enduring opposition networks.