Indigenous people during the republican era.

Indigenous In the republican era

1930

Indian tribute was abolished and legal equality was established. But in practice, their subjugation to the haciendas was reinforced and the dispossession of their communal lands increased.

20th century

1940

In the 20th century, leftist forces supported the organization of the Indians.

"agrarian reform"

1959

In the 1960s, peasants and some landowners who wanted to modernize their haciendas pushed for "agrarian reform"

During the eighties and nineties

1980

Indigenous claimed their rights and confronted governments

Colonization of the Amazon

1985

increased and a good part of the eastern indigenous peoples was incorporated into the educational system and their organizations.

In the last decades of the 20th century

1990

the indigenous peoples participated actively in national
life.