This work treats about the personification and the present environmental elements in the indigenous orals narratives. They were worked four narratives, besides other contributions done by members of the „Nova Esperança‟Indigenous Community, located in the High Indigenous Land „São Marcos‟, Roraima. The methodology of the oral history was used to constitute the sources, looking for for those residents who knows the histories and that in the Community are constituted as their legitimate and authorized narrators. In the approach of the narratives the literary analysis was used, in a structural and morphologic perspective. In this context, it is verified that the personification of the environmental elements in them presents are based in the culture and in the collective memory, through the explanation of values, of faiths, of teachings and of precepts, being them same the Community's history. The approach of the oral tradition of this group offers an enlarged understanding of their cultural practices, it can could contribute to the understanding of the indigenous culture and of the processes of statement of their identity.
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