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Episode 2: Our Languages Episode synopsis: Reports the historical repression of indigenous languages practiced over the last 500 years by religious missions, government officials, or the non-indigenous population. And despite all this repression, the indigenous people resisted: more than 180 indigenous languages are still spoken in Brazil. The 1988 Constitution finally recognizes their right to be different and to have their languages taught in their schools, as we see in Professor Joaquim Kaxinawá's Forest School in Acre. Indians in Brazil - The series of ten television programs Indians in Brazil shows how the indigenous people of nine Brazilian peoples live and what they think: the Ashaninka and Kaxinawá of Acre; the Baniwa of Rio Negro, in Amazonas; the Krahô of Tocantins; the Maxacali of Minas Gerais; the Pankararu of Pernambuco; the Yanomami of Roraima; the Kaiowá of Mato Grosso do Sul; and the Kaingang from the southern region of the country. The series features interviews with inhabitants from different parts of the country, who express the not always friendly relationship between indigenous and non-indigenous people, from the time of “discovery” to the present day. The themes addressed by the characters in the series are: indigenous identity, their languages, customs and traditions, colonization and contact with non-indigenous people, the dispute over land, integration with nature and the rights that have been conquered. Índios no Brasil is an initiative of TV Escola, the Secretariat of Distance Education, of the Ministry of Education, produced by the NGO Vídeo nas Aldeias. The series aired on TVU: April 13 to 24, 2015 This episode aired on TVU: April 14, 2015