Itinerario de imágenes del indígena chaqueño. Del “Territorio Indio del Norte” al Territorio Nacional y Provincia del Chaco

Abstract

The Chaco region was one of the last zones to be incorporated to the productive national way of life after the armed submission of the aboriginal groups that had been inhabiting the area. This process, reinitiated in 1879, culminated around 1912 with the pacification campaigns and decidedly marked the imaginary about the Chaco indigenous. In this context, the aboriginal population was the object of attention in diverse discursive genders. Of those discourses surged complex, changing and contradictory images that can be understood by referring to the context in which they were produced, to the intentions of the emitters and the receptive possibilities to which they were subjected. This paper analyzes the way in which the images about the Chaco indigene were developed, transformed and remained during XIX and XX centuries, that we have synthetized using three reality perceptive schemes of the Chaco indigenous population: the scheme of civilization, the scheme of integration and the scheme of reparation/recovery.