Abstract

ALMIRON, Adrián Alejandro. Land Policy and the Indigenous Question in the National Territory of Chaco (Argentina): Approximations about the Land Tenure, 1903-1951. Historelo.rev.hist.reg.local [online]. 2016, vol.8, n.16, pp.159-191. ISSN 2145-132X.  https://doi.org/10.15446/historelo.v8n16.54420.

This paper analyzes national policy around indigenous land issue and published in the National Territory of the Chaco between 1903 and 1951, a key period, characterized by the settlement and growth of Chaco, especially from cotton cycle. For this we examine the law of that time referred to the land policy integration policy of the National Government with indigenous communities. We focus on describing and interpreting, claims of Aboriginal settlers in the reduction Napalp and in the colony Cabo Naro for concessions or title to the land they occupied and worked, demonstrating the relations and negotiations between government officials (National President, Territorial Governor, land surveyors and inspectors), and the caciques who claimed for their land rights. The research is based on official documentation of the Directorate General of Land, the Ministry of Agriculture, reports the Interior Ministry and the National Agrarian Council, as well as newspapers of the time.

Keywords : national territory; indigenus; publics land; Chaco.

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