Los Canindeyú a través de las fuentes: dinastía de caciques en el Alto Paraná. Siglos XVII-XVIII

Abstract

In this paper we present two unpublished sources in order to contextualize. On one hand the fragment of a visit to the indigenous towns: Itatí (Corrientes, northeastern Argentina) made in 1653, it is preserved in Archivo y Biblioteca Nacionales de Bolivia (Sucre) and was made by the judge Andres Garabito de León. This is the specific inspection a parcel consisting of a bias by a Canindeyú cacique family that developed a conflictive process, indigenous claims, discharge the encomenderos, presentation of witnesses and definitions by the visitor. The other eighteenth century document provides interesting facets: with no exact date of production, was written by a chief and mayor, also belonging to the family of Itatí Canindeyú, and refers to a mita waiver request for males of this reducción. These two texts invite us to reflect on the chiefdoms in one indigenous towns on different time frames and allows us to problematize about these sources, its scope and limits, allowing us to travel the universe work also indigenous feudal relations - commissioned and linkages of reduction with officials and residents of the city.

Keywords

• Encomiendas
• caciques
• guaraní
• Corrientes