Increasing attention is being paid to various realities and their cultural practices. These processes have evidenced tensions, one of them being the awareness not only of sharing the world with other people, but also that there are cultural practices that are far from being extinguished or hidden. One of the areas where these tensions are expressed is education, and even more so when in national states various societies claim differences at different levels, either in historical processes, in health, in the conceptions of the law and, above all, in the conceptions and practices of education. The need for differentiated education has been strengthened in the state’s proposed Ethnic Education and in the proposals of indigenous organizations; first, Bilingual Education; then Intercultural Bilingual Education; Own; and, most recently, Indigenous Education System Own – SEIP (in Spanish). A look at these processes will be presented, paying special attention at how to build bridges to construct a deliberately democratic and inclusive society, aware that indigenous peoples are and have been in permanent relationship with the national society.