The school education of the brazilian Indigenous

Abstract

The current paper aims to present still existing impasses regarding to the formation of specific schools for the indigenous peoples of Brazil. The Constitution of 1988, the LDB of 1996 and, finally, the promulgation of Law nº. 11.645 guarantees the preservation of knowledge of these populations with reference to the maintaining their customs and rec-ognizing them as ethnic groups. However, in contemporary times, the image of the indige-nous continues to be illustrated in the textbooks of History of Brazil of regular, private and public schools, in a distorted and stereotyped way, which contributes to the maintenance of discrimination, prejudice and invisibility. These populations struggle for space in Brazili-an society and demand that their teaching methods and ethnic characteristics be respected.