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In recent years, the Ikpeng people have attributed
great value to school education. There are four teachers
among them and it is the village of the Park that has
the greatest number of students (107). In 1994, with the
help of linguists, the Ikpeng teachers elaborated a form
of writing, in the context of the Teacher Training Program
of the Xingu Indian Park (of the Socioenvironmental Institute).
As a result, Ikpeng writing has been greatly used by the
students, who also learn the Portuguese language, which
is spoken with great fluency by most of the population.
The Ikpeng school has assumed a central role in the Project,
being responsible for the acquisition of school materials
and its distribution to other villages of the Middle Xingu.
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01:: Cover of the Ikpeng reader. Drawing: Maiua
Ikpeng, 2001
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