La visión y la vocación del excautivo Santiago Avendaño acerca de la cuestión del indio

Santiago Avendaño, captive of the Ranquel Indians from his seven to his fourteen years of age, devoted his life and work to defend the rights of the Indians in Argentinean territory, to middle between aboriginal communities and white society as an interpreter, military man, government servant and...

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Publicado en:Revista de Literaturas Modernas
Autor principal: Pérez Gras, María Laura
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Sumario:Santiago Avendaño, captive of the Ranquel Indians from his seven to his fourteen years of age, devoted his life and work to defend the rights of the Indians in Argentinean territory, to middle between aboriginal communities and white society as an interpreter, military man, government servant and writer. His manuscript was kept hidden in Estanislao Zeballos´s collection for a hundred and forty years and was precariously edited in two volumes (1999 and 2000) by priest Meinrado Hux. We have also found epistolary material written by his own hand, partly unpublished, interpolated in the original manuscript, of great importance for the study of the Indian issue during the 19th century and for the revision of past policies and actions led by the governments, because it documents the ideas of a man that got to know the Indians in their habitat and became a part of their community, although he never resigned his own. We shall analyse Avendaño´s vision and vocation through the reconstruction of his life, his action in the frontier conflicts, and his thoughts, in the light of this writings.