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Green energy, sustainable life: boosting school education, transmission of traditional practices, and income generation among the indigenous peoples of the Lower Oiapoque and Mapuera-Trombetas-Nhamundá rivers (Calha Norte)

Abstract

This project poses the following question: How can green electricity impact the lives of indigenous peoples? Through this guiding question, the project will be developed in two distinct regions of the Brazilian Amazon: the region of the lower Oiapoque River, in the state of Amapá, which includes the Uaçá, Juminã and Galibi Indigenous Lands; and the Calha Norte region, specifically the areas referring to the Trombetas-Mapuera and Nhamundá-Trombetas Indigenous Lands. The project's central problem is the precariousness of access to clean energy, which hinders the daily lives of the indigenous peoples in these regions, limiting the possibilities of producing resources for access to goods that have long been incorporated into village life. With electric energy as its basis, the proposal will address the issue of income generation with a focus on the production of artifacts (basketry, ceramics, bead and seed works, among others) both for use within the communities and for sale. In addition, the implementation of electric energy is understood here as a fundamental subsidy for an economic production that associates traditional knowledge with formal school education and the aggregation of value to the commercialized objects. In short, this project is structured in a tripod consisting of: 1) sustainable power generation; 2) fostering productive chains of artifacts; and 3) relationship between indigenous and non-indigenous knowledge. Finally, the project was conceived from the demand of the indigenous peoples of the regions contemplated here and is structured in an interdisciplinary and collaborative way. (AU)

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