The Indigenous Education and the Emergence Ethnic in Southern Brazil: An Approach from the State of Santa Catarina

Abstract

The condition of social exclusion is a feature among Brazilian indigenous communities. However, the consolidation of indigenous organizations and the provision of specific public policies, includ- ing those related to indigenous school education, has contributed to the emergence of ethnic indi- genous collective in Brazil. Analyzing this social process in the State of Santa Catarina (Brazil), as well as their relation with the development of indigenous school education in South Brazil is the objective of this article.