The council of elders, intercultural bilingual education as a epistemological project of the indigenous movements

The text analyzes the way in which the council of elders and the intercultural bilingual education is constituted en an epistemological project and symbol of struggle among the Ecuadorian indigenous people; but first, the contextualization of thesis of the indigenous organizations in two parts. The first makes a reference to the class understanding of organizations and the second to the indigenous movements with an ethnic thesis and how the debates and ethnic practices confront each other in the coloniality of power and knowledge.