Situational diagnosis of indigenous childhood and adolescence in El Salvador

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to promote the identification of material and spiritual conditions of life of the childhood and adolescence of the Náhuat, Lenca and Kakawira peoples; through their community experiences observed from the main areas of the reality of Indigenous Peoples, using the phenomenological qualitative methodology, through a bibliographic review and an analysis of content ethnological, historical, normative, public policy; as well as a description and understanding of phenomena from the worldview, principles, values and discourses of Indigenous Peoples.

The results established that, in the historical evolution, Indigenous Peoples suffered systematically and continuously violation of their fundamental and human rights, which led to the abolition of their culture, worldview, religion, denial of their institutions, health system, economic system, form of organization clothing, language and the violent dispossession of their lands; in addition to being historically denied their status as a subject of law, until their constitutional recognition with the reform of article sixty three.

The process of western alienation in which indigenous children and adolescents are immersed, jeopardizes the generational transfer of their worldview, due to the loss of identity and belonging; likewise, LEPINA empowers children and adolescents of their rights, without matching their obligations as a member of the community, violating the principles, values and worldview of the indigenous learning-teaching process; in reason of not promoting the key right of free, prior and informed consultation in the formulation of laws and public policies.