Entre La Violencia, la colonización y la adjudicación de reservas

Abstract

RESUMENLa historia del pueblo sikuani ha estado asociada a la incursión colonizadora y a la usurpación de sus tierras ancestrales, lo que ha causado la ruptura de lazos culturales y de identidad. Desde una perspectiva históri ca y etnográfica, este artículo aborda dos momentos relacionados con el abandono forzado y el despojo del territorio sikuani. A partir de los relatos sobre el pasado y la memoria de los habitantes del resguardo Wa coyo, examino el periodo de La Violencia de los años cincuenta y de la adjudicación de reser vas en 1960 y 1970, como momentos clave para explicar la constitución de la territoria lidad sikuani actual y los sentidos y significa dos que los sikuanis del presente le otorgan al despojo territorial del pasado. El artículo valoriza y hace visibles los relatos indígenas y el despojo asociado.Palabras clave: despojo, colonización, reser vas, sikuani, territorialización. ABSTRACT

Fish consumption during menarche, menstruation, pregnancy and postpartum in Sikuani women from Meta, Colombia

“…According to the Sikuani inhabitants of Wacoyo, their predecessor clans were originated, in a mythical period, from totemic animals called momowi that were the first to populate the Orinoco basin. The current Wacoyo community was founded in 1939 by the Sikuani leader called Antonio Turriego Yepes, but only until the 1980s their land was legalised as a reservation and their indigenous organisations were recognised by the government [14]. In the present day, the Wacoyo Reservation has a local authorities headed by the “captain” who leads the organisation of the community and interacts with the local and national governments.…”

“…Nowadays, the Sikuani reside in sedentary or semi-sedentary conditions along the Manacacías, Meta, Vichada, Guaviare, and Orinoco rivers, in indigenous reservations situated in savannah and jungle areas where they subsist from hunting, fishing, gathering, agriculture, and recently from other economic activities [12, 13]. Despite the notorious influences of forced displacement on the culture and territory management of Sikuani people, most of their dietary intake still comes from wild natural resources including numerous species of fish, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, insects, and plants [14, 15].…”

La instrumentalización del saber antropológico en la década de 1930 en el marco de la colonización de los Llanos Orientales

“…Al llegar a Villavicencio se reunieron con los "llaneros" (Bolinder, 1936b), vocablo con el que se designaba a varios grupos de colonos que provenían en su mayoría del interior del país, algunos inicialmente se dedicaron a la agricultura de subsistencia y otros compraron parcelas y acaparaban grandes extensiones (Calle, 2017). Gracias a estas conversaciones, Bolinder organizó una ruta a partir de la información recopilada y sus experiencias en el reconocimiento del terreno.…”

Grounding legal geography: Conversations on law, space, and power across disparate geographies

“…Legal geographies of the state have been extensively analyzed by authors such as Margarita Serje (2011, see also Serje et al, 2007), Martha Herrera Ángel (2002), María Clemencia Ramírez (2011) and Teo Ballvé (2020), whose work has examined the historical configurations of “frontier lands” and the violent state formations implicated in the process. In relation to this work, there is considerable research around the agrarian question and the legal geographies that produce and derive from processes of dispossession and landgrabbing in the country (Arias, under review; Camargo, 2022; Coronado, 2021; Grajales, 2016a, 2016b, 2017; Meertens, 2016; Morris, 2017; Ojeda, 2016; Rivera Cediel, 2024), with particular attention to Indigenous and Black territories (Bejarano Martínez, 2023; Calle Alzate, 2017; Hernández Ospina, 2020; Herrera Arango, 2016; Pérez, under review). Environmental conflicts are also a key area of research in which Colombian legal geographic research has significantly contributed, as in the work of Ángela Castillo Ardila and Sebastián Rubiano Galvis (2019), Kiran Asher and Diana Ojeda (2009), Carolina Bejarano Martínez (2023), Kristina Dietz (2020, see also Dietz and Engels, 2017), Carolina Olarte Olarte (2019, 2021) and Irene Vélez-Torres (2014).…”