Raposa Serra do Sol Indigenous Training and Culture Center
O Raposa Serra do Sol Indigenous Training and Culture Center, located in the Barro Indigenous Community, Raposa Serra do Sol Indigenous Land, municipality Pacaraima/RR, is a private Community-Based Center whose head is the Indigenous Council of Roraima (CIR). It has its Decree of Creation and Resolution CEE/RR 002/05 of May 19, 2005 and the Accreditation Act Resolution CEE/RR No. 004, of March 28, 2006.
It is located in the Barro Indigenous community, Surumu region, municipality of Pacaraima, Raposa Serra do Sol Indigenous Land, declared by the Ministry of Justice by the Ordinance No. 534 and Ratified by the President of the Republic on April 15, 2005. It is the territory traditionally occupied by the Macuxi indigenous peoples, Wapichana, Taurepang, Patamona and Ingarikó, and covers the hydrography of the rivers Maú, Tacutu, Surumu and Miang in the far north of Brazil, state of Roraima Border with Venezuela, 187 km from the capital of Boa Vista.
Meets indigenous young people from the Serras, Surumu, Raposa, Baixo Cotingo regions, Amajari, Tabaio, Alto Cauamé, Serra da Lua, Wai wai, Yanomami and Murupu do state of Roraima.
O Center directs the training of young indigenous people in Roraima, offering knowledge and tools that enable them to act as leaders and references in their communities. With a critical reading of society, the The objective is to strengthen the social organization of communities, promote self-sustainability alternatives for the indigenous peoples of the state and contribute to the construction of a social, political and cultural future based on in Good Living.
É one of the symbolic and historical spaces, where the assemblies of tuxauas at the beginning of the struggle for the demarcation of the Raposa Serra do TI Sol, as in 1971, the first general assembly of the Tuxauas.
Communities and indigenous leaders had been discussing the need to advance in the construction of a specific and differentiated indigenous education. One of the meetings milestone of this discussion took place on August 25, 1985, in Surumu, with the following theme "What escka do we have? What school do we want?". In the context of these discussions, in 1996, the CIR and the Diocese of Roraima began work on the formation of young people in the Surumu Indigenous School, which was the precedent of the Training and Culture Center Raposa Serra do Sol.
Enter 1996 and 2004, the Surumu Indigenous School offered high school studies and training in agriculture and livestock, being administratively linked to other existing educational centers such as the Simini'yo Indigenous School, of the Cantagalo indigenous community, the center responsible for the certification at the time of the studies of the students of Surumu.
In the 2003-2004, the school community, accompanied by teachers, advisors, and indigenous leaders, instituted a process for the formulation of a new Pedagogical Political Project based on the Integrated High School modality with qualification in Agriculture, Livestock and Environmental Management. The new proposal also inserted the Alternation, a system in which each class remains the period of two months with practical technical monitoring, participating in workshops and exchanges related to the context of the Center and, for the same period, return communities in order to practice and disseminate acquired knowledge.
O Raposa Serra do Sol Indigenous Training and Culture Center, builds its Pedagogical Proposal around three fundamental axes: LAND, IDENTITY AND AUTONOMY.
1. LANDas an original right that represents indigenous life itself, being necessary for physical, cultural, environmental and economic survival of indigenous peoples, relating to the exercise of other fundamental rights.
2. CULTURAL IDENTITYas a referential wealth of personal and social life, in the present and in the future, with a dynamic perspective.
3. AUTONOMYas the right to freely determine one's political status and seek its economic, social and cultural development through its own self-determination.
More 150 young people have already been trained and today work in their communities, performing essential functions in territorial management, occupying public positions in public bodies indigenists, such as Funai, in addition to playing leadership roles in the Council Indigenous of Roraima (CIR). In addition, they followed some careers such as agronomists and lawyers, contributing directly to the defense of the peoples indigenous people of Roraima