Chapter 4

My journey as an indigenous Xinguan teacher and researcher

The present work aims to document my personal trajectory and experience as an indigenous student and researcher of my own language and culture. This has been an experience during a period of my life in which I lived outside my village while seeking the enhancement of my knowledge, capacities and skills. I consider this as a tool that enabled my education and knowledge about my own history and that of my native fellows. This tool allows for the better knowledge of people about their reality and it reflects that there is great richness within their society’s culture. I present as well a reflexive discourse about the educational process from a non-written culture to another culture that privileges the written materiality, and about how I processed this particular aspect while meeting both cultural forms that are structurally and conceptually different by nature.