História e cultura indígena: uma proposta para o estudo dos Kaingang nas aulas de História do Paraná para o Ensino Médio

Abstract

The research carried out in this paper sought to understand and problematize the treatment of indigenous histories in Brazilian historiography and schooling, and then to build possibilities for approaching indigenous histories and cultures, especially that of the Kaingang people, in high school history classes in Paraná. It is considered that, even with the implementation of Law 11.645/08, there are still gaps in the teaching of indigenous history that need to be overcome. The challenge posed by the research is to conceive a plural understanding of what for so long has been conceived as the "only indigenous history" and to reflect on how many historical perspectives are possible for dealing with this issue, in order to question its historiographical and school erasures. To do this, we turn to the postulates of the New Indigenous History and Decoloniality as discussions that support a reading of indigenous protagonism as subjects of their own histories, as well as a bibliographical review of the material produced on the Kaingang ethnic group, especially the Kaingang Apucaraninha Indigenous Land. The aim is therefore to investigate the potential of using Kaingang Indigenous History in Paraná as an object of study and reflection for the production of historical meaning, in its cognitive, affective and identity dimensions, with young students.