Indigenous school education in Brazil has been imposed on indigenous people since the beginnings of colonization, with the aim of catechizing and civilizing them. Nevertheless, in agreement with their cosmologies, these peoples have retained their own way of education. Despite the harm historically inflicted by this form of teaching on indigenous societies, they have learned how to live with it and in many cases they demand it and recreate it. Today we can see a process of 'Indianization' in many village schools, through practices that seek in memory, tradition, ancestral wisdom and in the teaching of history the affirmation of their ethnic identities, making this institution and the practices developed within it possible allies in their historical struggles.
indigenous education; teaching of history; tradition and memory