The Way of Cultural Resistance of the Ampiuile People: A Survival Pedagogy from the Own Educational Process, Ampiuile Indigenous Territory, Silvia Cauca Municipality, Colombia

Abstract

In Colombia, in the last decades, voices that were previously inaudible and silent are heard. One of those voices belongs to the Ampiuile Indigenous People, located in Silvia Municipality to the east of Cauca Department, Colombia, showing themselves and demanding with increasing force to be made visible and recognized within the framework of a national history that, ideologically univocal, until now this indigenous people has insisted on including them, but at the cost of depriving them of their own values, cultural beliefs and visions regarding land, territory, authority, education and the harmonic balance that must exist with the natural environment, confronting them with the idea of a hegemonic citizenship. The cultivation and breeding of wisdom and knowledge, was intended to resignify the path of cultural resistance of the Ampiuile People, from the educational process itself, as a pedagogy of survival, from the word, memory, history, daily and community experiences avoiding the physical, cultural and spiritual extermination. The educational process itself as a political and pedagogical commitment is contributing to decolonize thinking to reclaim community processes, to the empowerment of cultural knowledge, to the active and determined participation of men and women, boys and girls in the construction of a common social fabric, where there is equality and where many other worlds are in the midst of differences, glimpsing formation processes from life and for life, revitalizing the memory of the elders in collective voices.