Indigenous students at the Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará (UFOPA), Santarém, Brazil: Waiwai, Arapium and Tupinambá

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Eveline Almeida de Sousa
Diego Marinho de Gois
This paper discusses the experience of indigenous students of the Federal
University of Western Pará, Brazil, considering their perceptions and memories
and the implementations of affirmative actions at the institution. Remarkably,
the entry of indigenous people to academic institutions has raised several challenges for universities, involving curricular, administrative and cultural changes,
and has prompted a rethinking of teaching-learning structures and knowledge
production.
Keywords
indigenous, university, difference, Amazon, Brazil.

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Almeida de Sousa, Eveline; and Marinho de Gois, Diego. “Indigenous students at the Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará (UFOPA), Santarém, Brazil: Waiwai, Arapium and Tupinambá”. Boletín americanista, no. 75, pp. 113-31, https://raco.cat/index.php/BoletinAmericanista/article/view/330043.