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This research analyzes images (illustrations) about history and culture of indigenous people in history textbooks. Trough proposition the analysis of illustrations on indigenous people’s history and culture we discuss the representations of indigenous, their history in the context of the study of history in Brazil, and the diversity of their cultures. This research considers illustrations as vestiges of their time and as documents/sources in the studies of History and «History Teaching» illustrations produced to be used in a media context of the history text-book, in which the historical source is regarded in the dimensions of truth and imagination.