“A cultura indígena no Baixo Tapajós e a comunidade de Pedra Branca” 2000-2016

Abstract

This article aims to understand how indigenous culture is taught in the school context of the nonindigenous school Nossa Senhora Aparecida, in the riverside community of Pedra Branca, located on the left bank of the Tapajós river. It aims to analyze how ethnic and cultural relations are being developed at school, what difficulties and limitations are there in the teaching of History and Indigenous Culture, especially in primary education, by teachers, their methodologies, didactic resources, as there are prejudices and reluctance in relation to the ethnic reaffirmation of indigenous peoples that is taking place in the Tapajós River region. Faced with this complex ethnic and identity situation, the school needs to use methodologies that focus on the history of Amerindians, comparing cultures and making students realize that the cultures of the tradicitional peoples of the Tapajós region have indigenous origins. These factors can soften the problem of the existence of prejudice against the indigenous, facilitate the teaching of indigenous culture in elementary school and understand more profoundly the processes of ethnic reaffirmation. The students have the right to know the history about the natives of their region and the History teachers are the main responsible in this teaching-learning process.