A educação escolar indígena potiguara da aldeia Três Rios.

Abstract

This work is focused on the specific and differentiated education of the Potiguara people in Paraiba. Specifically, I analyze the case of the Escola Estadual Indígena de Ensino Médio e Fundamental Pedro Máximo de Lima, in the village of Três Rios, part of the Indigenous Territory Potiguara de Monte-Mor, in the Paraiban municipality of Maração. It puts forward a reflection on ethnicity as an argument to fight for differentiated rights and education as a tool to strengthen one’s own culture. The Potiguara people lived through years of oppression and resistance, and the differentiated indigenous school can be a strategy for cultural appreciation through the strengthening of the ethnic identity. The indigenous school Pedro Máximo de Lima has been since 2003, together with the process of taking the village of Três Rios, an important cornerstone in the political and community life of the Potiguara people in the process of fighting for indigenous rights.