Educação Escolar Indígena em Santarém - PA: desafios e perspectivas

Abstract

In this work, we examine the relevance that school education has for the indigenous, within their territory. Through field research that involved structured research and participatory observation, we noted that the union between ethnic groups from the same territory strengthened the struggle to achieve benefits for the collective, are emphasized in the interviews carried out with the leaders and representatives of the surveyed indigenous peoples, the first step towards conquests of indigenous rights and recognition of indigenous territory. The research was carried out in two schools in the Cobra Grande Territory, with different ethnic groups, Arapiun and Jaraqui. We conclude that indigenous school education intends to contribute to the strengthening of resistance in the face of challenges, social inclusion with indigenous self-assertion, as well as to guarantee the rights that they are carried out more vehemently within indigenous territories, given that they have legal support.