A Colonization Project at the Orders of the Argentine National State in 1869
Author(s)
Tamagnini, Marcela; Zavala, Graciana Perez
Abstract
In Argentina during the second half of the 19th century, within the process of the national state’s consolidation, a political project was designed that excluded not only important sectors of the “national” society (farm workers, gauchos, and rural laborers) but also native communities whose territory was added to the state by the military. This article analyzes the territorial occupation policies that were implemented in the southern frontier zone of the Córdoba region, in the section between the Cuarto and Quinto Rivers, at the end of the 1860’s. These policies were promoted taking into account two fronts: the indigenous front and the front of “old settlers” of the region, who previously had been beyond state control. The focus is on a colonization project designed by Colonel Lucio V. Mansilla at the same time as military forces moved toward the south.
