What are the academic practices that lead the realities and experiences of the Apinajé
indigenous communities as a source of knowledge? How do indigenous people relate to the
non-indigenous at the University during the Community and University Time? What is the
meaning of University activities for these students' lives? This study investigates the
perceptions of Apinajé academics about their intercultural relations during the Licenciatura
em Educação do Campo (LEdoC): habilitação em Artes e Música at the Universidade Federal
do Tocantins (UFT), in Tocantinópolis. The specific objectives were to ascertain whether
there is dialogue between the subjects, as a way of enabling the exchange of experiences; to
identify musical practices contextualized in the University that involve the culture of the
Apinajé people and verify the meaning of the musical experience lived by these students in
this Course. The methodology adopted was Oral History, using data collection Oral History
interviews through the Google Meet platform. The research falls within the Cultural Studies,
more specifically in Education, by using various fields of knowledge, becoming an
interdisciplinary study (SILVA, 2013). In Cultural Studies, because it is a cultural practice
(CULLER, 1999), it is possible to cover and include literary studies through minority voices,
enabling the expansion of the literary canon through knowledge from several areas. The term
Interculturality subsidizes this work by understanding that projects aimed at indigenous
populations should be focused on intercultural perspectives, and Critical Interculturality
(WALSH, 2013) was used to defend the insertion of characteristic that involves society,
through a process of democratic construction. The results showed that the indigenous
academics upon arriving at the University experience several difficulties, but over time they
are inserted in the process and seeing ways to minimize their problems and follow in search of
the achievement of their dream of finishing the course and give a return to their people related
to their specific training in Arts. The adversities faced by them pass through the absence of
transport, precariousness and lack of internet, not having computers and the use of the
Portuguese Language. The only program that specifically accompanied the indigenous people
in the Institution was extinguished, making the permanence even more fragile. From these
data, are highlight the need to meet the demands presented by the indigenous academics
Apinajé for the effectiveness of an intercultural practice, in which their experiences and the
knowledge of the elders are valued.
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