Política de tierra y colonización para las comunidades indígenas de la provincia del Chaco: proyectos, reclamos y regularización de la ocupación (1951-1987)

Abstract

The issue of land since the formation of the province of Chaco has been one of the main policies demanded by indigenous communities. The main request was the securitization of land, inspection and measurement or the granting of a precarious permit, the main objective was to achieve stability in land tenure, but also claimed the possibility of obtaining more land for exploitation. Within the framework of these claims, the State will promote, from 1951 to 1987, two marked policies towards indigenous communities that will have a direct impact on land policy; we refer to integrationism and policies of self-management and cultural development. In this sense, the work proposes an analysis in process of the different measures that were applied from the provincial State and the claims made by the communities during this period, to obtain and regularize their land situation. For the elaboration of this work, official publication, censuses, newspapers, which allow us to reconstruct this study process, were used as the main documentary source.