RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN CULTURE AND MOTHER TONGUE IN THE INDIGENOUS SCHOOL CONTEXT: RECLAIMING AND STRENGTHENING WITH THE ARARA DO RIO BRANCO COMMUNITY - YUGAPKATÃ
White-fronted Macaw - Yugapkatã. Resistance. Culture. Language revival. Education.This research aimed to foster the cultural revival and use of the Arara-Yugapkatã language through teaching with intercultural pedagogical experiences, understanding it as a linguistic policy movement in the community and school. It also aimed to research and record our culture and our relationship with nature, and some stories of the Arara people of the Rio Branco - Yugapkatã. The research methodology was participatory, involving interviews with the elders of the community and group discussions with everyone. We carried out pedagogical activities in teaching about the history of the giant macaw and workshops on canoeing, rowing, hammock making, and traditional house building. Teaching in the research occupied the spaces of the village, the houses of the elders, and the encounter between generations. In other words, the research process produced a decolonization of teaching and knowledge, integrating oral experiences and techniques of artisanal production as legitimate knowledge of the Yugapkatã people. The research was conducted in the village of Volta Grande, in the municipality of Aripuanã, Arara do Rio Branco Indigenous Territory. As we carried out the workshops, we also listened to and learned some words in the native language, and for others we did bibliographic research to find out how the word was spoken and written in the language of the Arara people (Yugapkatã). The research is part of a cultural resistance of my people