Entrada "Argentina"

RAMOS, ANA

Encyclopedia Native Peoples of the World (Steven L. Danver, ed.)

M.E. Sharpe

Lugar: Armonk, NY; Año: 2013; p. 1 - 3

The hegemonic construction of the Argentine nation has been presented as a melting pot of European races that has excluded native peoples. Nevertheless, the Argentine population has been the result of two main historic processes since the sixteenth century: the colonial and the republican. Both processes have affected native Peoples through mechanisms of territory expropriation and their subjection as labor force. At the end of nineteenth century, the nation-state?s consolidation processes implied genocidal policies. Since 1983, indigenous militancy and mobilization started to question the indigenous extinction common sense?s idea, making visible both past and present expropriation mechanisms and denouncing historical state policies.