ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the rich and diverse variety of cultures related to the indigenous women and ethnic groups in Latin America, focusing mainly on Brazil, Venezuela and Argentina. The framework includes an introduction to their culture, a brief history of indigenous peoples, and the situation of indigenous women's rights and lives in Latin American societies. The chapter explores women's participation in games and ethno-sports in schools and society. Indigenous women have become more visible through writing, storytelling, education, and political advocacy and more recently by participating in indigenous games in the city. In Brazil the indigenous peoples began to be recognized as citizens in the 1988 Federal Constitution. The ancestral indigenous education is handed down from the parents and extended family in the communities. Physical education, as part of the formal general education that reaches the child through school, is in crisis because education programmes adapted to the indigenous peoples do not recognize traditional knowledge.
