RIO, PONTES E ANCESTRAIS: Vozes indígenas e o Ensino de História na Zona Oeste do Rio de Janeiro.
Teaching Indigenous History, Indigenous School Education, Decolonial Education.
This paper is the result of a collaborative study involving indigenous people from different ethnic groups living in urban areas and students from a CIEP on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro (SEEDUC/RJ). The research was carried out with the aim of problematizing the teaching of Indigenous History and Culture in basic education, looking for ways to enforce Law 11.645/08, with a view to breaking colonized patterns of education and stereotypes about indigenous peoples. Through collective collaboration between all those involved, we created the conditions in institutional spaces for indigenous people to be their own voice in the classroom. The aim was to build possibilities for decolonial pedagogical dialogues and an awareness of the diversity of the more than 300 peoples who inhabit Brazil, breaking with generalizations. This rapprochement between indigenous people, students and educators, in an organic way, will produce a significant increase in historical and identity awareness after the experience of these dialogical encounters.