Indigenous schooling in São Gabriel da Cachoeira/AM: a little bit of history

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to identify, describe, and characterize the context where a doctoral research was conducted with the School of Education Graduate Program of the University of São Paulo. A brief historical retrospect was made of indigenous schooling in the town of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, in High Black River area, in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. Through a basic, descriptive research regarding the objectives, a bibliographical review concerning the procedures, the starting point was the following question: how was the early process in setting up indigenous school education in this area? It is necessary to consider the training of indigenous teachers drawing from the way they conceive the world and human beings and the forms of social, political, cultural, economic, and religious organization adopted by these peoples, since we are part of this context.