Wounds of indigenous genocide in Argentina and possibilities for healing

DIANA LENTON

Los Angeles

Simposio; International Conference Mass Violence and Its Lasting Impact on Indigenous Peoples - The Case of the Americas and Australia/Pacific Region.; 2022

Center for Advanced Genocide Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles; USC Shoah Foundation and Indigenous Knowledge Institute of the University of Melbourne, Australia.

The military invasions of the last Indian territories, at the end of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century, had as a correlate the expulsion of thousands of its inhabitants. The expelled individuals and groups were subjected to different practices of deprivation of liberty, forced labor, compulsory incorporation into the state army, separation from its members, appropriation and trafficking of children and adults, exposure to hunger, disease and physical and mental deterioration, deprivation of their identity and compulsive imposition of the cultural brands of the hegemonic group.