The thesis investigates the relation that the indigenous community Tembe, Teko Haw village, located on the left bank of the River Gurupi, county Paragominas (PA), border with the state of Maranhao, keeps with their school. Using the participant observation, interviews with teachers indigenous and non indigenous and the coordination of schools, as well as the incursion of documents and laws that support this type of education, we seek understand the local meanings and mishaps made by a educational policy based the concept of interculturalism. For this we use the concept of school culture in order to investigate how the village school Teko Haw constitute a physical and symbolic territory separated from the culture of the village, both with regard of the conceptions and the management of time, when what actors to identify how the goal of the school education. The paper deals initially with the legislation and sets the ERA in the state of Pará and Paragominas on the Tembe people, the concepts of Culture and Intercultural school and finally presents the relation x community school. Gave up a particular attention to the ways in which the Indian community makes use of the school in a symbolical and political way, both in the context of ethnic villages Tembe, as in the interethnic context of its relationship with the regional society. Such uses will help us analyze the behavior of both managers and non-native teachers who work with indigenous schools, and the way in which indigenous leaders make the school so as to make the intercultural relation less asymmetrical.