Abstract
Objective: To describe the experience of nursing academics in the discipline of Health of Amazonian Populations, about the interaction between indigenous and non-indigenous medicine in an Indigenous Medicine Center in a city of the state of Amazonas. Experience report: The experience was provided through a Nursing undergraduate discipline that addressed indigenous health care and brought academics closer to knowledge of traditional medicine, enabling a new vision of care for this population. The scenario of the experience was the Center for Indigenous Medicine (CMI) that offers health practices based on traditional indigenous medicine, in addition to promoting dialogue between this and western medicine. Final considerations: The experience provided a critical-reflexive view of the health of indigenous populations by the academics, their specificities, the complexity of the health care process, the multiculturalism of indigenous peoples, as well as nursing training capable of promoting an intercultural nurse/indigenous encounter with a view to offering care that is congruent with culture and devoid of ethnocentrism.