Afterwards, Apib (Articulação dos Povos do Brasil) sued the STF (Supreme Federal Court) against a law approved in the state.
The action was filed this Tuesday (21) and has the same motivation as the occupation: protest against a state law that could end indigenous people in the state.
The movement complains that this law, approved at the end of December 2024 in the state Legislative Assembly, repeals the systems called Some and Somei.
The first deals with the provision of primary and secondary education for the population not served by regular schools, while the second creates a specific structure for teaching the state’s indigenous populations.
The indigenous people claim that the new legislation allows the closure of classes and the migration of face-to-face classes, in the villages, to the virtual distance learning system.
Therefore, Apib approached Minister Edson Fachin, from the STF, with an ADI (Direct Action of Unconstitutionality) asking that, despite the revocation of specific systems to deal with this issue, an interpretation be given to the law that guarantees the maintenance of educational policies for indigenous people.
The articulation argues that indigenous education is a constitutional right and that, therefore, the Court must consider that the new legislation violates the basic precepts of the Magna Carta.
In this sense, the entity understands that teaching the native language of indigenous peoples represents “the rights of indigenous peoples to their cultures, traditions and social organization”, as well as a mechanism for social inclusion.
“The protection of indigenous school education is, therefore, an indispensable pillar to guarantee access to fundamental rights, combat historical inequalities and strengthen democracy, by integrating indigenous peoples into national development without violating their identities and values”, says the action.
On the 14th, indigenous people from ten ethnicities occupied the Pará Education Department, against the management of governor Helder Barbalho (MDB), asking for the new law to be reviewed.
They are from the Munduruku, Tembé, Xikrim, Borari, Arapium, Kumaruara, Sateré Mawe, Maytapu, Tapuia and Tupinambá ethnic groups.
In a note published on the day of the occupation, the Pará Department of Education argues that there will be no lack of assistance to indigenous populations.
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