LAND AND LABOR: management policies over indigenous peoples in the Uruguay of the 1830s

• Autor(a) principal: REPETTO, ANA FRANCESCA
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Outros tempos
• Texto Completo: https://www.outrostempos.uema.br/index.php/outros_tempos_uema/article/view/994
• topic: Índios charruas; Uruguai; Questão da terra; Charrúas; Uruguay; Land disputes; Charrúas; Uruguay; Conflicto territorial

This article deals with a facet of the indigenous history of Uruguay. Specifically, it addresses and analyzes the so-called Charrúa “distributions of Indians” that occurred after the well-known Salsipuedes Massacre in 1831, on the banks of the homonymous stream, when the contingent of survivors - mostly women and children - were transferred to Montevideo to be distributed among the houses of elite families in the city. The distributions were planned by the incipient statehood of the time as ways to incorporate and "tame the savages" into national life. Thus, based on a corpus of archival documentation from the mid-nineteenth century, this article discusses the forms that the management policies of the Charrúas took, in the context of the advance of the agricultural frontier on the indigenous territories of the north of the Río Negro.