Colombia: Indigenous Peoples & Movements
(see also Colombia, Colombia: Violencia 1948-1980, Colombia: Drug Wars 1980-2000, Colombia: Amazon Region, Colombia: Black History, Life & Values & Latin America: Indigenous Movements)
Basics
On the Web: Articles
Search for Black Gold Disturbs Ancient Gods. Michael McCaughan, Irish Times (12/31/97). U'wa & the oil companies.
From Resistance to Organized Social Movement: A Comparative Study of Indigenous Movements in Ecuador & Colombia. Victoria Juan Candial (M.A. thesis in Latin American Politics, U. of Essex, 1995).
On the Web: Specialized Sites
In the Library: Articles
Anon. "Colombia: Indian massacre in Cauca," International Working Group on Indigenous Affairs, Newsletter 38 (7/84):37-42.
Avirama, Jesús & Rayda Márquez. "The indigenous movement in Colombia," in D. Van Cott (ed.) Indigenous Peoples & Democracy in Latin America (London, 1994).
Bonilla, Victor Daniel. "Itinerario de una militancia paralela: la lucha por los derechos indígenas y la lucha por la democratización en Colombia," in Grünberg (coord.) Articulación de la diversidad (Quito, 1995), pp. 323-46.
Fajardo Montaña, Darío. "El censo nacional de población indígena en Colombia," América Indígena 32,4 (10-12/72):1125-35.
Findji, María Teresa. "From resistance to social movements: the Indigenous Authorities Movement in Colombia," in S. Alvarez & A. Escobar (eds.) The Making of Social Movements in Latin America: Identity, Strategy and Democracy. (Boulder, 1992), pp. 112-134.
Hernández de Alba, Gregorio. "Teoría y práctica del indigenismo en Colombia," Anuario Indigenista 25 (1965):117-30.
Murillo, Mario. "Colombia: confronting the dilemmas of political participation," NACLA Report 29,5 (3-4/96):21-22. Native American mobilization.
Rappaport, Joanne. "Las misiones protestantes y la resistencia indígena en el sur de Colombia," América Indígena 44,1 (1984):111-26.
__________. "History & everyday life in the Colombian Andes," Man 23,4 (12/88):718-39.
Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo. "Indígenas de Colombia," América Indígena 19,4 (1959):245-53.
Serna, Cesar. "Colombia: political violence, another problem facing indigenous peoples," IWGIA Newsletter 53/54 (5-8/88):59-61.
Triana y Antorveza, Humberto. "Las lenguas vernáculas ante la ley y la práctica en Colombia," América Indígena 32,4 (10-12/72):1237-82.
Yagarí González, Eulalia. "The right to love & politics: an indigenous activist’s perspective [interview]," Abya Yala News 10,1 (spr 1996):10-12.
__________. "The political crisis & prospects for rural democracy in Colombia," in J. Fox (ed.) The Challenge of Rural Democratization: Perspectives from Latin America & the Philippines (London, 1990), pp. 44-79.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Arhem, Kaj. Makuna: Portrait of an Amazonian People (Washington: Smithsonian, 1998).
Bonilla, Victor Daniel. Servants of God or Masters of Men? The Story of a Capuchin Mission in Amazonia [1968] (trans. Rosemary Sheed; Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972).
Casement, Roger. The Amazon Journal of Roger Casement (ed. Angus Mitchell; London: Anaconda, 1997). Basis for turn-of-century scandal about extreme abuse of Indian laborers in rubber collection.
Castillo Cárdenas, Gonzalo. Liberation Theology from Below: The Life & Thought of Manuel Quintín Lame (Maryknoll NY, 1987).
de Osa, Veronica. The Troubled Waters of the Amazon: The Plight of the Colombian Indians in Amazonia (London: Hale, 1990).
Ereira, Alan. The Heart of the World (London: J. Cape, 1990).
Friede, Juan & others. Indígenas y represión en Colombia (Bogotá, Centro de Investigación y Educación Popular, 1979).
Gudeman, Stephen & Alberto Rivera. Conversations in Colombia: the Domestic Economy in Life & Text (NY: Cambridge, 1990).
Instituto Colombiano de Antropología. Introducción a la Colombia Amerindia (Bogotá, 1987).
Jaulin, R. La paix blanche: introduction a l'ethnocide (Paris: du Seuil, 1970).
Rappaport, Joanne. The Politics of Memory: Native Historical Interpretation in the Colombian Andes (NY, 1990).
__________. Cumbe Reborn: An Andean Ethnography of History (Chicago, 1994).
Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo. Indians of Colombia: Experience & Cognition (Bogotá: Villegas, 1991).
__________. The Forest Within: The World-View of the Tukano Amazonian Indians (Devon: Themis, 1996).
__________. Yuruparí: Studies of an Amazonian Foundation Myth (Cambridge MA: Harvard Center for the Study of World Religions, 1996).
__________. Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta: Land of the Elder Brothers (Medellín: Colina, 1999).
Sevilla Casas, E. La pobreza de los excluidos: economía y sobrevivencia en un resguardo indígena del Cauca (Cali, 1986).
Singh, Priti. Governance of Indigenous Peoples in Latin America (Delhi: Authors, 2002).
Sowell, David. The Tale of Healer Miguel Perdomo Neira: Medicine, Ideologies & Power in the 19th-C. Andes (Wilmington DE: Scholarly Resources, 2001).
Taussig, Michael. Shamanism, Colonialism & the Wild Man: A Study in Terror & Healing (Chicago: U. of Chicago, 1991).
__________. My Cocaine Museum (Chicago: U. of Chicago, 2004).
Tayler, Donald. Embarkations: Ethnography & Shamanism of the Chocó Indians of Colombia (Oxford: Pitt Rivers Museum, 1996).
van der Hammen, Maria Clara. El manejo del mundo: naturaleza y sociedad entre los Yukuna de la Amazonia colombiana (Bogotá: Tropenbos, 1992).
Vasco, Luis Guillermo. Los chamí: la situación del indígena en Colombia (Bogotá: Margen Izquierdo, 1975).
Zucchi, Alberta y Silvia Vidal (eds.) Historia y etnicidad en el noroeste amazónico (Caracas: U. de los Andes, 2000).
In the Library: Fiction
In the Library: For Young Readers
In the Library: Poetry
In the Library: Drama
In the Library: Photography
CD & Audio
Film & Video
"Amapola, la flor maldita" [1995], dir. Marta Rodríguez & Lucas Silva, 30m. From Latin American Video Archives. Impact of poppy & coca cultivation on Guambiano Indian communities.
"Children of Thunder (Los hijos del trueno)," dir. Marta Rodríguez de Silva, 52 m. From Latin American Video Archives. Crisis in world coffee prices drives Indian peasants of Cauca to cultivate poppy.
"The Earth Is Our Mother" [1987], dir. Peter Elsass, 50m. From Filmakers' Library. Contrasts reaction to Western encroachment among Andean Arhuaco & lowland Motilones of Venezuela.
"La hoja sagrada" [2001], dir. Marta Rodríguez & Fernando Restrepo, 54m. From Fundación Cine Documental.
"Memoria viva" [1992], dir. Marta Rodríguez, Ivan Sanjines & Consejo Regional Indígena del Cauca (CRIC), 30m. From Fundación Cine Documental.
"Nuestra voz de tierra, memoria y futuro" [1981], dir. Marta Rodríguez & Jorge Silva, 90m. Indian struggle to regain lost lands in Depto. del Cauca. From Fundación Cine Documental.
"Planas: testimonio de un etnocidio" [1970], dir. Marta Rodríguez & Jorge Silva, 37m. Army massacre of an Indian community in 1970, filmed with P. Gustavo Pérez Ramírez.
"Tierra y Cultura (1987)," 38 m. Indian communal movement to recuperate land & organize defense vs. landowners, army & government. From Cinema Guild.
"La voz de los sobrevivientes" [1980], dir. Marta Rodríguez y Jorge Silva, 25m. Story of murdered Paez leader Benjamín Dindi Kue.