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ABSTRACT
This research analyses the ways that Xokleng People had to face to conquer a school and the
several senses that they gave to it. It began with a situation occurred in a public State School,
situated in Dr. Pedrinho town, exactly in the children coffee break, where the Indian and non-
Indian children fought to each other and because of that the Police intervention was
necessary to tranquilize them. One of the consequence of those facts was that the Indian
children left the school in order to continue their studies in a Indian Community School in the
last bimester of 2001. Unfortunately this school had no conditions to receive those forty
students. In that situation the Indians began to fight in order to get betterment in the physical
structure of their school and also in the community. In the chapter Knowing the Indian
Community searches to get knowledge and fight for the frequency and abidance in the school
institution. In Recognizing searches the school place to this community and the senses to it.
Among these senses how to get the acknowledgment of the others to school approval.
Identifying with the intention to show that the school can be a reconstructing space of a people
identity. It is also necessary to make reflections on the search of a people that believes had
found its way to redeem its history, identity and culture. In a frenectical search of a new
school for the Indian Children, the Community found its history, identity and culture. The
school building is the cellar of the leaderships, a safe harbour where the children come get
more information and knowledge and at the same time it gives them back the new members
worried about the improvement of their own lives and their people.
Key words: School. Xokleng Indians. Culture Redêem. Identity. Indian School Education.