| CALL FOR PAPERS International Congress of Americanists (June 2003, Santiago de Chile). "Indigenous Rights, Dialogy and Relations to National States" Coordenacion/Convenor : Adolfo de Oliveira, U. of St.Andrews, Scotland. email: ado1@st-and.ac.uk It is only a preliminary proposal, as the final program will be defined by the beginning of next year. Proposal - Simposium (International Congress ofAmericanists, Santiago de Chile, June 2003) "Indigenous Rights, Dialogy and Relations to National States" Coordenacion/Convenor: Adolfo de Oliveira, U. of St.Andrews, Scotland. email: ado1@st-and.ac.uk The beginning of the third millenium finds Indigenous peoples of the Americas in a radically different situation from where they found themselves a mere few decades before. One has only to remember how, not more than thirty or forty years ago, Indian voices were taken only as laments of a fading reality, inexorably destined to vanish, to realize how their contemporary situation has changed. Presently, we witness the emergence of their voices imposing themselves upon national states as a legitimate part in a relation that is forcibly shaped as an inter-ethnic dialogue. Throughout the continent Indigenous peoples have tried, with different degrees of success, to establish some measure of autonomy and self-determination in relation to the national they find themselves encompassed by. An underlying motif seems to obtain in all, or most of these attempts: the establishment of a dialogical relation with national states, in which there can be enough horizontality to allow Indigenous peoples to actively control their own destinies. | |
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