She is best known as the first indigenous scholar to have obtained a doctoral degree in Brazil.
[1][2][3] Her research has focused on the description of the moribund Ofayé language of the Macro-Jê language family, spoken in Brazlândia, Mato Grosso do Sul.
Born in Tacaratu (Pernambuco), Oliveira accompanied her family to São Paulo in 1970,[2] where she studied until the seventh grade before returning to Tacaratu.
[1] She obtained a BA in History at Autarquia de Ensino Superior de Arco Verde in Arcoverde (1990), as well as a second BA in Pedagogy (1997), an MA and a PhD in Linguistics at Universidade Federal de Alagoas in Maceió.
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