Abstract

MONGUA-CALDERON, Camilo. Historicities, indigenous and narratives, an approach to the history of the Western Tucanos of the Putumayo River (16th and 19th centuries). Anu.hist.reg.front. [online]. 2023, vol.28, n.2, pp.317-335.  Epub July 21, 2023. ISSN 0122-2066.  https://doi.org/10.18273/revanu.v28n2-2023012.

This article presents an approach to the history of the Western Tucanos of the Putumayo River from a discussion of the historicity and indigenous societies through the construction of the history or historicity of the Western Tucanos around their narratives that tell its history around the extensive region of the middle basin of the Putumayo River between the 16th and 20th centuries. For this exercise, the ethnohistorical narratives of their descendants, the current Sionas or Gantëya bain, are analyzed, as well as the bibliography produced on this region and different documentary sources. The Siona narratives relate important events that are related to the process of colonial expansion between the 16th and 20th centuries based on critical events or events; however, they are narrated from their own perspective that fractures modern historical time. The events respond to one of the critical events and revolve around its main protagonist, the curaca or cacique curaca. This way of telling its history contrasts with the way in which historical studies have organized the main events, periods, and historical time in the Amazon (for example, the colonial or republican missions, the rubber era, and the arrival of the oil companies).

Keywords : indigenous people; Putumayo; Siona; historicity..

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