Todo dia é dia de índio. Que índio?

Abstract

The year 2020 and more than ten years have passed since the implementation of Law No. 11,645 from March 2008, which determines the compulsory study of Afro-Brazilian and indigenous history and culture in schools in Brazil. This work aims to analyse what has changed regarding the teaching of this theme in the last decade, as well as how we represent our Indians nowadays. For that, the objective is to work with what has been remembered and what has become forgotten about the indigenous theme and whether there is a policy of memory behind these celebrations and representations. I also analyse whether our school curriculum encourages this type of critical reflection and whether our students are able to develop a historical knowledge which restructure this way of thinking through the decolonial epistemological key. Therefore, this work aims to think, analyse and discuss these issues raised from the 19th of April, "Indian’s Day", a symbolic and significant date for the indigenous theme. Such theoretical-methodological process will be carried out through pedagogical interventions and workshops created by students from the Year 8 of the Secondary School - and supervised by me - in order to reframe the Indian’s Day for students who have been attending the Primary School. Those workshops were elaborated and developed in a private school located in the city of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro State.