La escuela rural en territorio seri, 1920-1957

The Seri people are an indigenous group that inhabits at the central coast of Sonora, Mexico and who have been historically linked as hunter-gatherers and fishing activities. The group was handled by the program of rural schools implemented by the federal government from the decade of 1920. This paper pretends, from the regional perspective to explore the scope of the cultural policy in order to show the factors that led to its implementation and based from the argument that the rural education aimed to the indigenous population was determined by the negotiations of intermediary agents; in this case, ranchers, teachers, local merchants and religious groups who adjust and fit the educational programs to the cultural conditions of this community.