The indigenous agency in context.

Notes on the first indigenous meeting of the Calchaquí Valleys (Tucumán) 1973

Abstract

In this work I review, from documents and testimonies, the local indigenous organization as a particular process inserted in a political and economic situation determined both, by the "sugar crisis" and expectations in the third presidency of Juan Domingo Perón. In this framework, I will consider how the political growth, the concretion of the First Parliament of 1973 in Amaicha del Valle (Tucumán) and the definition of the claims are linked to a network of relations and diverse political actors.  I will especially exemplify how the centrality of the territorial claim may be related to the study of an agency structurally antagonistic to the local indigenous organization, such as the Federal Investment Council. The complexity of linkages and feedbacks present in this case will allow us to understand how, in spite of its specificity, indigenous political action cannot be analyzed in isolation, without considering the complex network in which it is registered and the potential and scope of its agency as a way of historical transformation.