These days I re-read our history. Demands of teaching, but also a pleasure to recognize in this common past. do not believe in extreme nationalism, much less biased stories that are in fashion where, under the pretext of hearing the "voice of the vanquished", they are isolated from other humanity, they are projected onto anachronistic ideal or acts and attitudes attributed to them that did not exist.
Our indigenous ancestors, who can ensure they do not have any? were not always heroes, did not have that kind of aura "green" that many attribute to them, but certainly more than we respected nature, even by magical fear, did not form a single cultural entity, not systematically opposed the invasion. Were women and men who lived, like us, a story that could not choose and in front of it, they positioned themselves, resisting, accommodating, avoiding or fighting ...
En el nacimiento de la Nación Argentina, una nación inexistente entonces, una nación creada, una nación que es multiétnica y plural, la presencia nativa fue permanente y, en muchos casos, fundamental.
Acostumbramos a pensar en el Virreinato del Río de la Plata como un gran mapa compuesto por los territorios de cuatro repúblicas actuales; Bolivia, entonces el Alto Perú, Paraguay, Uruguay y Argentina más algunas regiones del Brasil (Río Grande, Paraná) y Chile (Antofagasta). But nothing could be further from reality, the viceroyalty was a land surrounded on the north and south, by extensive domains occupied by native peoples.
formal treaties existed, some dating back to the seventeenth century, which recognized indigenous peoples around territories under their exclusive domain.
The presence of indigenous people, both as free subject, was a constant during the colonial period.
"Indians" were entrusted to the Northwest from the beginning, as artisans and peasants exploited. Some of them lost their identity marks, others kept in the dark, many of the recovered in recent years.
The Guarani, enthusiastic partners of the fusion, were the population base of Paraguay and the labor that made possible the rise and heyday of the Jesuit Missions.
The comenchingones were common in cities of Cordoba and quartermaster and pehuenches huarpes in the Cuyo region.
The free north Abipones, Qom, wichí were the terror of the neighboring Santa Fe but also a familiar presence in the immensity of the Chaco.
The free south pampas Mapuche were frequent visitors to the new capital of the viceroyalty, the port city of Buenos Aires, where they were in 1806, offering his services against the British and 1810 where deposed Viceroy himself says, were at the Open Meeting on 22. The same 25 the lonkos Quintela Black, Epugner, Vitoriano Errepuento and signed, along with winka the petition calling for the resignation Cisneros final. Were as protagonists of the Revolution as Berutti, Castelli and Rodriguez Peña ...
In the War of Independence was a constant presence of native peoples from the patriot troops.
San Martín will almost certainly mestizo, his grenadiers required for the presence of Guaraní missions, descendants of those who faced the delivery of their ancestral lands to the Portuguese . To the Liberator los "indios" eran "nuestros paisanos"; un ejemplo para la lucha por la liberación sudamericana.
El ejército del Norte, aquel que sufrió las mayores privaciones en la dura campaña del Alto Perú, contaba en sus filas con guaraníes y collas.
No en vano nuestra Bandera ostenta al Inti del Tawantinsuyu, nuestro himno menciona a las tumbas del Inca y nos considera sus hijos . No sin motivo los dos primeros cañones de la Patria llevaron los nombres de Mangoré y Túpac Amaru.
No fue, tampoco, un detalle Belgrano picturesque proposal of a sovereign of the Inca race, the Congress of the United Provinces in South America (not the tiny and elusive that followed Argentina) had issued the Declaration of Independence both Castilian and qeshwa and Aymara.
empowers a descendant of Tupac Amaru and make Cusco the seat of government of the "new and glorious nation" had been, perhaps, the logical consummation of that policy Americanism.
Antes de ello, en la que fue nuestra primera declaración de Independencia; el Congreso de Arroyo de la China convocado por Artigas, también habían hecho acto de presencia los pueblos indígenas. Los guaraníes de Andresito lucharon con valor por una libertad y una justicia que, todavía, les está siendo negada a sus descendientes.
Los años que siguieron cambiaron muchas cosas.
The divisions became more profound, civil war swept over the fields in the Viceroyalty dismembered and hopes that spring, when Creoles and Indians fought together in the same country, under the cold froze reasons of " civilized. " The indigenous, marginalized, locked himself in his own pockets contented with the looting and the return to the old ways. Neither one nor the other wanted, or could, learn from each other.
There was, however, sporadic ongoing exchanges and partnerships. Rosas fought and negotiated some friendships with others. Many gauchos, not just Fierro buscaron el amparo de la toldería así como parcialidades enteras se "asilaron" en territorios bajo el control del winka. Poco a poco, sin embargo, la incomprensión mutua hizo de las suyas; el gaucho exiliado no entendía las costumbres nativas, el "indio" asentado se resistía a los requerimientos del naciente Estado.
Así se llegó a la guerra.
Guerra civil, por muchos motivos, durante la cual el indígena sufrió la misma suerte del gaucho. Fue derrotado y terminó como un extranjero en su propia tierra. Recuerdo pintoresco de estampas populares, domesticado santito de la casas humildes, lectura obligatoria de primary book, memorizing names of the remote past.
Today indigenous peoples, which existed prior to the artificial divisions of the American homeland, stand up again. Not just complain, pretend to be sharers with their culture, their language, their traditions of a society that grew them back.
We also got up and recognize ourselves as brothers, as part of a multi-ethnic reality itself, as descendants of the same blood as heirs of 10,000 years of history of Argentina.
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