THE INDIGENOUS AND THE REPUBLICAN PROJECT OF NATION: BETWEEN THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE EVOLUTIONISM. NINETEENTH-CENTURY COLOMBIA. A THEORETICAL APPROACH

Abstract

The following article tries to explain of general way the participation of the indigenous communities in the projects of nation of the colombian elite during century XIX. The objective is to observe the variations of the discourse before, during and after of the Independence, to analyze the differents assigned nuances from the indians and to find its connections within the processes of national identity. Like counterbalance to the dominant discourse, has been necessary to bring into consideration the indian discourse for to have an idea on the indigenous perceptions around of the measures dictated by the republican administration. As conclusion, we proposed the political and symbolic use of the indians, positive like negatively, and its later marginalization in the construction and integration of the Colombian nation of century XIX, within an historical frame that basically included two national projects of european spread: illustrated (the first decades of the century) and evolutionist (1850-1880), with a transitional step of the romanticism.