“Conquering a New Territory”

Decolonial Dialogues with Indigenous Graduates from the Law Course on University

Abstract

The result of a research carried out in the Postgraduate Program in Education at the Dom Bosco Catholic University/UCDB, the text linked to the Intercultural Education and Traditional Peoples Research Group/CNPq, aims to describe the dialogues and manifestations of indigenous graduates from the course of Law on access and permanence of being at university. Supported by theoretical reflections in the field of postcolonial studies and decoloniality, the article used a qualitative methodology, where the data produced occurred through interviews with indigenous graduates of the Law course who are part of the first network of lawyers Indigenous Peoples of Brazil from the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB) in partnership with Instituto Pró-Bono. Being at the university means creating an Indianized frontier space, a place where indigenous culture is maintained and dynamically updated through constant transformations, especially in interaction, in the dialogue established with each other and in the promotion of a policy that promotes diversity and the difference.