Abstract
In this article, we present a study of the Presidential Decree number 6.861 — which created the ethnical educational territories — and discuss possible changes that the document announces for the indigenous schooling policy in Brazil since 2009, when it was edited, until October 2013, when the No 1.062 ordinance by the Education Ministry was published establishing the Programa Nacional dos Territórios Etnoeducacionais (Ethnical Educational Territories National Program). We use a metaphor inspired by the art installation called "Nosso Norte é o Sul" (Our north is the south), by Yanagi Yukinori (8th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, RS 2011), in which the "territory of ants", built during the event, proved to be a fertile soil for thinking about the possibilities perceived on those documents. Both the decree and the ordinance, by repositioning the indigenous school education policy, interfere not only with the territorial organization, but also with school managing and administration, more emphatically setting the Amerindian protagonism in school education processes.
Keywords:
Ethnical Educational Territories; indigenous educational policies; indigenous education; Brazil