Entre la policía y la barbarie. Traslado de los indios de Isimena en la provincia de los Llanos, 1782-1805

Abstract

In 1782, the priest of Isimena, obeying the wishes of the Indians of his doctrine, solicited to the fiscal protector of Indians to allow him to transfer the natives to Sabana Alta. Since then, an extensive discussion developed pierced by reformist ideas about the convenience of the transference, in which two territorialities and cultures were put against each other: the Hispanic and the Indigenous. This article strives to analyze the arguments outlined by the actors of the mentioned conflict, trying to relate the ideas and interests that they supported with the Bourbonic Reformism and the opposition from the indigenous groups.