Povos indígenas e a escolarização: aspectos da implementação da política nacional de educação escolar indígena no sudeste do Pará

Abstract

This paper seeks to understand how the Indigenous School Education (EEI) policy has been implemented in the southeastern region of the state of Pará, considering the rights won by indigenous peoples in Brazil in the 1988 Constitution. For the purposes of the research, the minutes of the meetings of the Constituent Assembly are analyzed, laws regulating EEI, as well as a diagnosis prepared in the year 2019 to verify the effectiveness of the EEI policy in southeastern Pará. From the data analyzed, it is possible to see that despite the undeniable advances in the national EEI policy, schools present in the indigenous villages in the region under study still do not access this policy in a satisfactory manner. Among the causes of this gap are, among other things, limitations in the way the state and the municipalities appropriate the legislation and implement the policy.