A INFÂNCIA INDÍGENA: PESQUISA COM CRIANÇAS NA ALDEIA CANUANÃ (FORMOSO DO ARAGUAIA - TO)

This study aimed to investigate how indigenous children of the village Canuana move between their children's cultures and the cultural universe in which they live; understand the indigenous children through the eyes of infants and to analyze the relationship of children with specific modes of socialization of their community and intercultural influences present in their social context. For this, we chose to ethnographic research in the village Canuana (Formoso do Araguaia - TO), in the years 2012 and 2013, where approximately 1,200 indigenous lives, most of them from Javae ethnic, which aimed an anthropological perspective to unveil this infant universe through the eyes of indigenous children, using as main participant observation. We also have educational games as production drawings, wandering the community guided by children, photographs, games in general. The analysis results pointed to three categories that guided the study: the river, the myths and the bilingual and intercultural education, which were present in the speeches and daily life of that child's universe.