Instrução moral e ofício doméstico para meninas nas Vilas de Índio

Abstract

This article discusses the education of Indian girls during the colonial period. The intention was to present tracks and routes on the teaching of reading and writing for girls in villages in the Indian Captancy Siará Grande. This study is anchored on sources that reveal the existence of classes to read and write, as well as learning crafts home in Indiao Villages. Through a survey by the documental of the Public Archives of the State of Ceará, were found some documents, among them, laws that decreed the creation of Indian villages, sent letters to the captains mores, ordinances government of the Province. record stores and Order of appointment of teachers of first letters, patent rcords for official ordinances, records and minutes of erection high inauguration of the Indian villages. Based on these findings will reveal traces of a possible policy toward public education of the natives. Such cuts are desirable because they allow a comparison with models of formal education of Indian women in villages civilians, indicating the route of colonial education in Brazil.