Contradicting developmental policies that advocated for road infrastructure projects in an indigenous territory in the Bolivian Amazon, a community member from Villa Fátima, a small mojeño-trinitario village on the Sécure River, stated, “our policy is our labor” - “nuestra política es el trabajo”. Creating an opposition between development policies and local working practices is particularly significant in a context where land is considered a maternal entity. Throughout five years of fieldwork in the Indigenous Territory and National Park Isiboro Sécure (TIPNIS), I frequently heard that the territory should be protected because “we should take care of our mother”. What governmental policy addresses as rural development is perceived by local indigenous people as an act of negligence toward Mother Earth. In contrast, their own agricultural and livestock activities are viewed as part of a care chain involving the earth, themselves, and their children. This paper introduces a research agenda on the intricate dynamics between indigenous labor on the land, caregiving practices, and rural development policies. The primary objective is to analyze ethnographic data collected in the TIPNIS territory from 2012 to 2016 to verify how the notion of care mediates indigenous perceptions on development. By exploring these dynamics, this paper aims to provide insights into how indigenous notions of care challenge hegemonic development paradigms, working as a way to integrate indigenous subjectivities into the Plurinacional development field.