The following research proposes to analyze how the female rite of passage experienced by the
Festa do Moqueado in Guajajara-Tenetehara villages contributes to indigenous education as a
cultural reaffirmation of these people. For this purpose, the methodology applied on this
research is based on qualitative ethnography, which leads the journey to Lagoa Quieta village,
in Arariboia Indigenous Land, located in the state of Maranhão, becoming a major
significance for the development of this paper, since it allowed the researches of Laboratório
de Línguas Indígenas situated on the Universidade Federal do Norte do Tocantins actively
participate in the Festa do Moqueado. Thus, the materials used as sources of analysis were the
theories of ALBUQUERQUE and ALMEIDA (2012), understanding how the cultural
diversity present in the indigenous school education process occurs in the tribes; the
anthropologist GENNEP (2011) who sought to define and classify the term rite; LARAIA
(2020) to explain the scope of the word culture; and ZANNONI (1999) that unravels the
social, historical and cultural aspects of the Guajajara-Tenetehara people.To introduce a
deeper view, the present paper is arranged into four topics, the first being directed to the
contextualization of the Guajajara people; the second focused on the Festa do Moqueado; the
third explains the methodology used in the research development, and the fourth is dedicated
to conclusions. The essay results rely upon the context revolving around indigenous
knowledge performed in the ritual under an identity perspective.
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