UM GIRASSOL PARA TIANA

Abstract

In the Southwest of the State of Goiás, in the city of Mineiros, there is a small community founded in the 19th century, well before Abolition, by the freed slave Francisco Antônio de Moraes, known as Chico Moleque. In the Quilombola do Cedro Community, separated from the city by just one street, currently 237 descendants of its founder live. From the time the quilombo was created until today, some things have changed, but part of its culture, traditions, values ​​and knowledge have been maintained over the years. Most cedrinos keep their families engaged in subsistence agriculture. The vegetable garden in the backyard, a few heads of cattle, chickens and pigs guarantee their food independence. However, do not think that this way of living means poverty, because in Cedro there is an invaluable wealth of knowledge passed on generation after generation and also of stories that permeate the collective imagination. Part of this intangible heritage is the centennial knowledge about medicinal plants in the Cerrado biome, knowledge initiated by Chico Moleque, which has been preserved and improved and, currently, is recognized by the national scientific community. This work is part of the results of an ethnographic and ethnobotanical research project funded by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Performance - CNPq, carried out by employees of the Federal Institute of Goiás from 2016 to 2018 in the Cedro quilombo, located in Mineiros, in the state of Goiás. It also resulted in four other publications for school use: Um Girassol para Tiana, written by Tatianne Silva Santos and Mara Núbia Dionísio; Souvenirs Cedrinas: a bilingual storytelling experience, organized by Priscila Rodrigues do Nascimento, Joana Dark Leite, Maurício Fernando Schneider Kirst, Tânia Regina Vieiraa; How Ways Leads on to Preface Way: narrative in an interactive process, by Maria Luiza Batista Bretas and Vera Maria Tietzmann; and Medicinal Plants - manipulation and use in the Quilombola do Cedro Community, organized by Kennedy Araújo Barbosa. Characterized as paradidactic material, Um girassol para Tiana is aimed at young Brazilian students in the second phase of elementary school who want to know part of the history, traditions, culture and knowledge of the quilombolas remaining from this stronghold of former slaves.