The importance of the mother tongue in the educational process of Kaxarari-RO indigenous children and young people
MAK+TX+ KALAWAKA, WAKAX+N+ HUKULWAKA, M+KU, WAKAMABURU KAXARAR+ - RO
Geography. Indigenous School Education. Mother tongue. Kaxarari people.
The Kaxarari people are the most expressive representation of struggle and resistance, for a long time they have been attacked and lost part of their territory. Within this context of resistance, the general objective of this work is to analyze the educational process of the mother tongue of the Pano linguistic trunk for children and young people. The research was carried out in fields with professors and researchers from UNIR in the years 2022, 2023 and 2024, in the Barrinha and Marmelinho villages of the Kaxarari Indigenous Territory, located close to the District of Extrema, 400 km from the capital Porto Velho Rondonia Northern Region of Brazil . To provide a theoretical basis, the research used Terri (1984), Santana (2021), Munduruku (2012), Kambeba (2021) Krenak (2020) Nascimento Silva (1999), Almeida Silva (2021), Ab´Saber ( 2007) among others. Based on the phenomenilogical method, it seeks to highlight the subject's own experience and history, in a qualitative-quantitative approach. Interviews with leaders and teachers about indigenous school education were used, with other tools such as: participant observation, bibliographical research and questionnaires. The two villages researched, one being the opposite of the other, in the Barrinha village only 3% of the population speaks the mother tongue, therefore, in the Marmelinho village 80% speak the mother tongue of the Pano linguistic trunk. The Kaxarari Indigenous Territory has undergone major transformations and challenges over time; In the 1960s, the Kaxarari suffered a violent attack from caucheiros, Peruvians and Brazilian rubber growers seeking to exploit the territory. It was noticed the great gap arising in the process of colonization of these people, the massacre suffered by them and the marriage with non-indigenous people.