TERRITORIAL MARKERS: FROM THE WARI’ YOUTH UNIVERSE TO UNCERTAINTY IN THE CITY, ARE OUR COLORS THE SAME?
Territorial Markers. Photovoice. Young Indigenous Students. Social relationships. Educational Public Policies.
This thesis aims to analyze the contributions of young Wari' from the Igarapé Laje Indigenous Land – Aldeia Laje Velho, which promote the preservation of their socio-historical and cultural data, through social relations between indigenous and non-indigenous young people, with public policies current educational institutions as a guarantor of rights. The specific objectives were defined: 1) Identify whether current public educational policies promote the entry, success and retention of indigenous students in Educational Institutions, in which Wari’ Young People were enrolled; 2) Analyze the perception of the surroundings of young indigenous students who studied at an indigenous school during elementary school I and II and are now enrolled in technical, higher education and postgraduate courses, considering the life trajectory, internal worldview and spiritual values of the students. Wari'; 3) Investigate whether the expressions of the Wari’ territorial markers modify the feeling of belonging and their social organization through social interaction with non-indigenous young people in Educational Institutions. The territorial outline is the Brazil/Bolivia border, western region of the State of Rondônia, between the municipalities of Guajará́ Mirim and Nova Mamoré́ the Igarapé́ Lage Indigenous Land is located with the territorial extension approved at 107,321ha - Decree 86,347, 10/09/1981 . The Wari’, Txapakura speakers, live in this IT. The territorial strip of the Igarapé́ Laje TI, which is located in the municipality of Guajará́ Mirim, is called Aldeia Laje Velho, and part of this territory extends to the municipality of Nova Mamoré́, and is called Laje Novo. The lack of secondary education provision creates the need for young people to continue their studies in urban educational institutions, and because of this, the confrontations are diverse and constant. Heidegger's Existential Phenomenology was the method used, using concepts from Paul Claval's cultural geography. The research is a qualitative approach with a descriptive nature, as well as the use of statistical data. The following methodological procedures were used: 1) Bibliographic and documentary research (articles, books and book chapters, master's dissertations, doctoral theses and documents available on the internet); 2) Statistical data research (quantitative data on internet search sites and databases of the Educational Institutions, where these students received; 3) Field research (four fieldworks were carried out from 2021 to 2024 using the photovoice methodology whose informants were randomly chosen among indigenous students who studied primary education I and II in the village and are now in urban educational institutions. Field notes were also used for participant observation along with semi-structured interviews to understand the subjects' discourse, who pointed out characteristics of territorial markers do not change their feelings of belonging given social relations. The perception of these young people's surroundings is that the village is their place to live in harmony with themselves. Current public policies do not guarantee their acquired rights, especially fundamental and Human Rights And the great contribution of young students to their community is the ability to be interlocutors in demands with non-indigenous people, through the ability to speak Portuguese.