Argentine Amerindians

There are thirty-five indigenous groups in Argentina, or Argentine Amerindians, according to the Complementary Survey of the Indigenous Peoples of the last national census, [http://www.indec.gov.ar/webcenso/ECPI/index_ecpi.asp Encuesta Complementaria de Pueblos Indígenas] ] in the first attempt in more than a hundred years that the government tried to recognize and classify the population according to ethnicity. In the survey, based on self-identification or self-ascription, around six hundred thousand Argentines declared to be Amerindian or first-generation descendants of Amerindians, that is, around 2% of the population. Nonetheless, in a recent genetic study conducted by the University of Buenos Aires, more than 50% of the Argentine population was shown to have at least one Amerindian ancestor. [ [http://coleccion.educ.ar/coleccion/CD9/contenidos/sobre/pon3/index.html] "Estructura genética de la Argentina, Impacto de contribuciones genéticas - Ministerio de Educación de Ciencia y Tecnología de la Nación] All indigenous cultures in Argentina have been affected by a process of invisibilization, promoted by the government since the second half of the 19th century. [ [http://alhim.revues.org/document103.html Miguel Alberto Bartolomé, «Los pobladores del “desierto”», Amérique Latine Histoire et Mémoire, Numéro 10-2004 - Identités: positionnements des groupes indiens en Amérique Latine, -En ligne-, mis en ligne le 21 février 2005. Consulté le 9 septembre 2006] ; NAVARRO FLORIA, Pedro: "Un país sin indios: la imagen de la Pampa y la Patagonia en la geografía naciente del Estado Argentino", en Scripta Nova Revista Electrónica de Geografía y Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de Barcelona.- Noviembre(No. 51): 1999.- ISSN 1138-9788]

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