Pasados contrahegemónicos y las voces de las infancias indígenas

Abstract

What history is taught to Indigenous children? This book proposes a response from the voices and struggles of Indigenous peoples, with a profound and critical look at the teaching of history in community settings. Throughout four chapters, the authors weave together educational experiences from Cauca that revitalize collective memory, reclaim ancestral worldviews, and rewrite the historical narrative from their own knowledge. Based on processes led by the Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca, the book highlights pedagogies born from the territory, oral tradition, and the legacies of leaders such as Quintín Lame and La Gaitana. Far from repeating official history, the schools, through their Community Education Projects, reconstruct a narrative that strengthens cultural survival, spirituality, and the struggle for autonomy. This book is a political, pedagogical, and cultural commitment that invites us to rethink the place of childhood, of Mother Earth, and of memory as an axis of resistance. A call to read and experience history from the heart of the people, where the future germinates.