Lamismo in the Colombian southwest and the struggle for the indigenous reservation of Ortega and Chaparral

Abstract

At the beginning of the 20th century in southwestern Colombia, an ethnic political agitation arose that promoted the not paying to a landlord for land, collective action that became a preamble to the conformation of the indigenous movement for the recovery of indigenous reservations under law 89 of 1890. This struggle which began with an insurrection, transformed into a legal conflict that allowed the recovery of some reservation lands. This article resumes the campaign of the indigenous leader Manuel Quintín Lame in the struggle for the partial and formal reconstruction of the Ortega and Chaparral indigenous reservation in southern Tolima that precedes the fight for the recovery of the land of the native peoples in Colombia.