ARA PYAU AND THE SACRED SEEDS
From Indigenous Literature to School Food
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https://doi.org/10.5216/revufg.v24.80247Keywords:
Ara Pyau exhibition, Indigenous Education, Indigenous literature, National School Feeding Program, sacred seedsAbstract
For the rural and forest peoples, seeds are sacred. However, native seeds have been disappearing. In a resistance movement, Indigenous literature has demonstrated the importance of protecting seed diversity to ensure food security and sovereignty for their communities and benefit from the public educational policies of the National School Feeding Program. The objectives of the article were to raise, discuss, and analyze the diversity of corn seeds inscribed in indigenous literature, intertwining them with the possibilities of offering Amerindian-colored corn in school meals. As a methodology, the Indigenous literature pieces Makunaimã taanii: presente de Makunaimã and O sopro da vida: Putakaryy kakykary, by the Indigenous writer Kamuu Dan, from Wapichana people, are analyzed. The sacred seeds present in Indigenous literature motivated an extension action that culminated in the organization and curation of the Ara Pyau (New Time) exhibition.
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