Construcciones de identidad: dinámicas de invisibilización y reemergencia indígena: Análisis del caso de Santiago del Estero

The analysis of indigenous participation stems fromsocial studies in recent decades. This paradigm shiftoccurs, among other things, construction of the identity and the social, political and cultural occurred in society. During colonial times the presence of indigenous people was of utmost importance to strengthen the model of colonization. However, the invisible becamean important hub and deepened its mechanisms forthe consolidation of the nation state. The category "Argentine citizen" has been proposed ashomogeneous mold from which it is thought, even today. The same happened in each province in a particular way depending on context. The population"santiaguena" is a construction that is not anindigenous presence, since they became extinct, supposedly. This invisibilization process begins to revert in 1990 with the formation of the Peasant Movement of Santiago Del Estero, in which their members, peasants and natives that belong to a fraction named “Via Campesina” organize themselves in this collective action space in order to claim for land, education, healthcare and most of all their own identity.