English versionVersión en castellano Photo ArchiveLinksShop
More Information

You can find more information about indigenous peoples and Argentina from the following sources:

   IWGIA publications
    Web links
    News and developments on IWGIA's website
    People: Wichí-Mataco
Photographer: Pablo Lasansky

IWGIA publications

The Indigenous World

An overview of crucial developments in Argentina is published in IWGIA's yearbook The Indigenous World. All issues of The Indigenous World from 2001 to 2005, except 2004, are available for downloading by clicking here. For backcopies please contact iwgia@iwgia.org.

Indigenous Affairs

In the Indigenous Affairs index you can find a list of articles published on Argentina in Indigenous Affairs (scroll down to Argentina)

Books

Belonging to the land/Pertenecer a la tierra, by Pablo Lasansky, 2004, IWGIA & Lhaka Honhat, photo book in English and Spanish. 

Pacta Sunt Servanda: Capitulaciones, convenios y tratados con indígenas en Pampa y Patagonia (Argentina 1742-1878), by Briones, C. and M. Carrasco, 2000. Buenos Aires. IWGIA, Spanish Document Nº 29.

Los derechos de los pueblos indígenas en Argentina, by Carrasco, M. 2000. Buenos Aires. IWGIA, Lhaka Honhat, Spanish Document Nº 30.

La tierra que nos quitaron. Reclamos indígenas en Argentina, by Carrasco, M. and C. Briones, 1996. Buenos Aires. IWGIA and the Lhaka Honhat Association of Native Communities. Spanish Document No. 18.
 
MAPUCHE - Et indiansk folk i Argentina og Chile, 2001 Copenhagen. International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA). (Danish)




    People: Wichí-Mataco
Photographer: Pablo Lasansky






    People: Wichí-Mataco
Photographer: Pablo Lasansky

Web links

Non-governmental organisations

 Academic studies and information 
Indigenous organisations 
Official bodies and education
  • National Programme for Intercultural and Bilingual Education – National Ministry of Education Coordinator: Osvaldo Cipolloni (011) 4129-1800 int. 6117 ocipolloni@me.gov.ar Press: (011) 4129-1170
  • National Institute for Indigenous Affairs (INAI) San Martín 451 - Buenos Aires (011) 4348-8471/2  indigena@medioambiente.gov.ar  
  • INDEC (011) 4349-9200 Av. Julio A. Roca 615, PB (1067) Ciudad de Buenos Aires http://www.indec.gov.ar  
  • Research and Training Centre for Indigenous Methods (CIFMA) – Chaco (03732) 423-7986 Sandra Flores sandravivianaflores@hotmail.com
  • Miguel Gómez, Toba Qom teacher, School 931 "Rigoberta Menchú", Saenz Peña, Chaco
    (03732)15-62-2463  
  • Roxana Soto (Diaguita), Diaguita Calchaquí Association diaguit@hotmail.com (011) 4911-9188  
  • Judith Martínez Cuevas (Quechua), coordinator of the Indigenous Culture Library Project of the National Congress  kaihuara@yahoo.com.ar
  • Pety Picinan (Mapuche), "Pueltvjv Lof" association – Neuquén (0299) 442-5867 petypicinan@yahoo.com.ar
  • Aylin Wagaiwe (Mapuche), "Pueltvjv Lof" association – Neuquén (0299) 443-9958
Press

Indymedia, which is a collective of independent media organisations and hundreds of journalists offering indigenous peoples non-corporate coverage: www.indymedia.org/es/
 
Social journalism: www.periodismosocial.org.ar/
 
Argenpress: www.argenpress.info/
 
Copenoa, North Argentine press agency: www.copenoa.com.ar
    People: Wichí-Mataco
Photographer: Pablo Lasansky






    People: Wichí-Mataco
Photographer: Pablo Lasansky






    People: Wichí-Mataco
Photographer: Pablo Lasansky






    People: Wichí-Mataco
Photographer: Pablo Lasansky






    People: Wichí
Photographer: Pablo Lasansky






    People: Wichí
Photographer: Pablo Lasansky


News and developments on IWGIA's website

 
Click here to go to latest news on indigenous issues in general
 
Click here to go to the Latin American section of the news archive

    People: Wichí
Photographer: Alejandro Parellada