Direito em Movimento - Volume 16 - Número 2 - 2º semestre/2018

76 Direito em Movimento, Rio de Janeiro, v. 16 - n. 2, p. 72-105, 2º sem. 2018 ARTIGOS This article investigates the right of indigenous people to their land according to the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court, identifying guiding principles; to then scrutinize the sense which was conferred to these principles. Importantly, from a comparative perspective, the influence of the principles of the Inter-American Court’s decisions on the Brazilian jurisprudence which treats indigenous rights can be verified. The theoretical base of this work lies in Dworkian theory 2 , by showing how rationality in courts’ decisions is obtained through juridical principles and by presenting a project of constructive interpretation which makes evi- dent the values and reasoning behind the application of law. As well, for the identification of the core principles in the jurispru- dence of the Inter-American Court, the theory of discourse in Habermas 3 played a central role. From there, our intention is to work with the plural interpretation by Peter Häberle 4 . In the end, the inductive methodology by study of concrete cases was adopted – the typically American case study – which brings the analysis of facts to the level of norms in order to explain the re-orientation of indige- nous rights under the lens of multiculturalism; and by the recognition of their demands in the International Courts. 2. HUMAN RIGHTS AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES Cézar Franco, in a study specifically on indigenous peoples and hu- man rights 5 , emphasizes that the latter – the rights of men – arose from 2 DWORKIN, Ronald. Levando os direitos a sério . São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2007. Idem. O império do direito . São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2007. Idem. Uma questão de princípio . São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2005. 3 HABERMAS, Jürgen. Facticidad y Validez: sobre el derecho y el estado democrático de derecho en términos de teoría del discurso. Madrid: Trotta, 1998. 4 HÄBERLE, Peter. Hermenêutica Constitucional, a sociedade aberta de intérpretes da Constituição: Con- tribuição para a interpretação pluralista e procedimental da Constituição. Porto Alegre: Sérgio A. Fabris, 1997. 5 FRANCO, Cezar Augusto de Oliveira. Direitos indígenas e mobilização: um olhar sobre a tríplice fronteira