A escola como espaço de intensificação de conflitos entre indígenas e não indígenas na Vila Franca de Arapiuns

Abstract

This work presents analyzes of oral histories that culminated in the look at the community of Vila Franca in Arapiuns and the conflicts that gave rise to narratives pro and against as self-identification of indigenous and non-indigenous people, having Nossa Senhora de Assunção school as a scenario for the resurgence from an indigenous school. The historiographical contribution to this text was based on the concepts of ethnogenesis by Oliveira (2010), Vaz Filho (2010), Peixoto, Arenz and Figueiredo (2012), ethnic identities by Cunha (2018), social identities in the Amazon by Ioris (2014) and the school as a social construction, as pointed out by Elsie Rockwell and Justa Ezpeleta (1989). Based on the historiographical review and on the first data from the field research, it was found that from the 2000s onwards, the appearance of several indigenous ethnic groups, hitherto considered extinct or unknown, increased, intensifying disputes over territory, land and school. With the objective of analyzing the memories around the challenges for education in the reverberating community for the construction of the Surara BenVinda indigenous school, this research uses oral history as a methodology and has as its field of investigation the context of Vila Franca on the Arapiuns river.