Ethnoterritory, Ethnoclimate, Jibina, D+ona and Fareka: Ethnographic Foundations of Educational Decolonization

Abstract

Indigenous peoples and, specifically, the Múrui-Muina ethnic group are a Nation that wishes to walk towards the dawn using the word as an educational model and tool to achieve their vindication from their ethnic-cultural pride. Objective: To identify the complexity of ancestral and identity knowledge from its ethnophilosophical and ethnoepistemological components. Methodology: Ethnography articulated with Participatory Action Research (PAR) was used, employing the analectic technique to understand the other, not as a strange or alien being, but as the other from the Colombian ethnic historical-cultural reality. Results: It was confirmed that the Múrui-Muina people remain victims of socio-human harassment by institutionalized armed groups and groups outside the law, as well as by illegal groups, who attack them solely for being indigenous. Conclusions: The research project shows that the struggle of the Múrui-Muina indigenous people is a persistent act to remain as historical subjects who deserve due respect for being the ancestors of all Colombians and who deserve to be repaired for the ethnocide and ecocide of which they were victims, simply for being humans who did not conceive of the jungle as a place of overexploitation nor Mother Earth as an instrument of enrichment.