Los indígenas Benianos en el acceso a la propiedad de la tierra y la constitución de una sociedad de frontera en la Boliva republicana, 1842-1951.

Abstract

The creation of the amazonian department of Beni (Bolivia), in the mid-nineteenth century, carried the participation of the indigenous population who was occupying it in the construction of the nation-estat. The Bolivian governments enacted legislation to colonization of the so-called “wastelands” and expansion, therefore, of the internal frontier; at the same time, allowed indigenous people the exercise their civil rights. Through the colonizing policies promoted by the Bolivian government, the indigenous tried to stop the pressure of the white-mestiza population and they demanded their incorporation to the Beni society through the exercise of the property over their lands.