Historicities, indigenous and narratives, an approach to the history of the Western Tucanos of the Putumayo River (16th and 19th centuries)

Abstract

This article presents an approach to the history of the Western Tucanos of the Putumayo River from
a discussion of the historicity and indigenous societies through the construction of the history or historicity of the
Western Tucanos around their narratives that tell its history around the extensive region of the middle basin of
the Putumayo River between the 16th and 20th centuries. For this exercise, the ethnohistorical narratives of their
descendants, the current Sionas or Gantëya bain, are analyzed, as well as the bibliography produced on this region
and different documentary sources. The Siona narratives relate important events that are related to the process
of colonial expansion between the 16th and 20th centuries based on critical events or events; however, they are
narrated from their own perspective that fractures modern historical time. The events respond to one of the critical
events and revolve around its main protagonist, the curaca or...