Paper short abstract:

In Argentina, the official national history is now questioned by indigenous peoples who started to claim for specific rights since the 80s. In my paper, I will analyze the way in which indigenous peoples and organizations are acting today in order to get a revision of conservative national history.

Paper long abstract:

In Argentina, the official national history is now questioned by indigenous peoples who started to claim for specific rights since the 80s. Heroic figures of the national construction, as for example General Roca, are strongly attacked by indigenous who ask for a revision of history and recognition of the genocide of the indigenous peoples by the Argentine armies at the end of the 19th century. Even if these claims are supported by some historians, these alternative visions of national history challenge the foundational myth of the Nation, and are difficultly accepted by conservative historians. Indigenous peoples ask nowadays for a rewriting of history that would take in account their point of view and recognize their importance in the construction of the Nation after years of invisibilization and remission to an anhistoric past (school book deal with indigenous cultures only in the section dedicated to the prehispanic time). In my paper, I will analyze the way in which indigenous peoples and organizations are acting today in order to get a revision of the conservative national history.