EL DESPERTAR DE LA FRONTERA SUR PAMPEANA (SEGUNDA MITAD DEL SIGLO XVII)

Abstract

This work analyzes the transformation process in the interethnic relationshipsraised in the pampean south frontier at the end of the XVII century, as well as thebeginning of certain practices deployed from the Rio de la Plata government that weredelineating an indigenous politics, concerning the partialities establish at the southof the jurisdiction.In a moment of strong competition inter and intra ethnic for the cattle resources,we locate the escalation of the Hispanic-indigenous contacts in the south frontier, aswell as the increase of the conflict in this bonds. This process became visible in thepermanent incursions that inhabitants from Buenos Aires began to make on the areainterserrana in search of wild cattle, as well as in the periodic attacks that indigenouspartialities of pampas and serranos carried out in the Buenos Aires campaign. In thiscontext, we distinguish the emergence of diverse proposals about how to solve thisproblem between the neighbours and Buenos Aires political and ecclesiasticalauthorities. These proposals, identified in historical documents (Records of the Towncouncil of the city of Buenos Aires, correspondence of Indians and Reales Cédulas),gave beginning to new forms of Hispanic-indigenous linking.y

Keywords

• interethnic relationships
• interethnic friction
• indigenous politics
• pampean south frontier
• XVII centur