Resumen de The Impact of Recent National Legislation in the Vaupés Region of Colombia
This paper analyzes Indian and non-Indian reactions in the Vaupés region of Colombia to the 1991 Colombian Constitution and subsequent legislation, specifically reactions to the on-going process of converting the Vaupés resguardo (a 3-millionhectare territory collectively owned by the region's Indians) into one or more �indigenous territorial entities� (ETIs), a new form of political-administrative unit. The paper argues that despite apparently substantial increases in the degree to which the region's indigenous inhabitants can administer their territory and ensure their future as a distinct ethnic entity, we can discern subtle ways in which the Colombian state is attempting to co-opt the Indian movement, at both national and local levels
