Indigenous movement, interculturality and education: some reflections

Abstract

When the dominant society considered that ethnic minorities were destined to disappear, the indigenous movement emerged as a political actor, which is reconfiguring a new political panorama in the Latin American region as a whole. In the following lines, a very precise description and analysis is made of some events on the interrelationships that have occurred between the emergence of the indigenous movement, its intercultural proposal and bilingual intercultural education as a tool for the construction of society. intercultural. The document proposed here was based on a critical analysis of the written sources and the current normative base related to the subject of reflection. As final reflections, it can be deduced that the indigenous movement went from being a collective that historically was protected by the church, the State or the landowners, to being a political actor that questions the social, economic, political and cultural structures of a State. monocultural, monolingual nation.