CRASSH

In the last decade, some nine public sector Universidades Interculturales (Intercultural Universities) have been established in Mexico, plus one Universidad Ayuk (in Oaxaca) under the aegis of the Jesuits and their Universidad Iberamoericana. They represent a range of strategies by state governors, by the Comisión Nacional de Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas (CDI - National Indigenous Peoples' Development Commission, previously the Insituto Nacional Indigenista - INI - National Indigenist Institute), under the guidance of the Education Ministry's  Coordinating Body for Intercultural and Bilingual Education (Coordinación General de Educación  Interculgtural y Bilingue - CGEIB) and by their own teaching staff and academic leaders to the education of indigenous people, to the formation of indigenous leadership, to the development of indigenous areas, and to the representation and promotion of indigenous identities and cultures. Based on field research undertaken in several of these institutions in 1997 and 1998, this paper will explore the multiple meanings which these initiatives have acquired for multiple publics and protagonists.

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