Abstract
Objective: To describe the phenomenon of indigenous suicide in Brazil. Methods: This is an integrative literature review, which sought to describe the phenomenon of suicide among indigenous populations in Brazil, based on scientific publications indexed in the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SCIELO) databases; Latin American Literature in Health Sciences (LILACS) and International Literature in Health Sciences (MEDLINE) between January 2010 and December 2018, whose final sample resulted in 6 articles. Results: The profile of the suicidal indigenous is similar in all contexts. Death often occurs in households and the preferred method is hanging followed by poisoning. Elements of indigenous cosmology such as "bewitching", "damage" and "envy" that would aim to cause harm to the person to whom they were destined, also appear as causing suicide. Finally, the very way in which the suicide's post-mortem is represented, point to the specificities found in the meaning of self-extermination in this context. Final considerations: Suicide among indigenous people is a serious public health problem, because in addition to the issues already known, we need to take into account the local and regional characteristics of ethnically different populations.