Abstract

MONROY-MERCHAN, María del Pilar. Relocating to Deprive: Marginalizing the Chitareros Indigenous Communities inside their Brotherhoods at the Suratá Valley in the Virreinato de Nueva Granada, 1752-1795. Historelo.rev.hist.reg.local [online]. 2022, vol.14, n.29, pp.15-49.  Epub Nov 24, 2021. ISSN 2145-132X.  https://doi.org/10.15446/historelo.v14n29.92781.

This article analyzes the development of the brotherhoods at the Suratá village of indigenous people before and after the Bourbon reforms in the eighteenth century based on the information found in the Books of the Santo Ecce Homo and Santísimo Sacramento Brotherhoods and other primary sources. This work initially describes the process of relocating the indigenous people from their original settlements in order to build the Suratá village of indigenous people, a process that occurred during the seventeenth century, with the corresponding assignment of communal land for indigenous reservations. Then, this work studies the process of aggregation of these villages during the eighteenth century as a consequence of the changes implemented in the regional production system in order to foster land circulation. The main objective of this work is to show the development of brotherhoods within this context of relocation occurring at the Suratá village of indigenous people, and how the Chitareros indigenous community managed to ethnically reorganize themselves within this context. It is concluded that the relocation dynamics marginalized the indigenous element inside their Brotherhoods and how poor neighbors, Spaniards and white people took control of these Brotherhoods as a result of the Bourbon gift-giving policies that promoted the organization of the land into parishes and the deprivation of the communal land initially planned for indigenous reservations.

Keywords : relocation; aggregations; brotherhoods; indigenous villages; reservation; neighbors.

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