From
the Socio-environmental, Human Rights and Indigenous Communities
Organisations from all over Argentina we address you and firmly express
that it is time that the national, provincial and municipal Argentinean
State in the three powers and all its institutions effectively recognise
the pre-existence and respect the rights of the Indigenous Peoples that
pre-existed the Argentinean State, ancestral inhabitants of what today
is called Argentina.
This ethnic and cultural pre-existence of
the Argentinean Indigenous Peoples has been recognised in the
Argentinean National Constitution in article 75, paragraph 17, since
1994.
Those PRE-EXISTING INDIGENOUS PEOPLES that the genocidal
conquest devastated and that the official history made invisible for
centuries are : the Tastil, Lules, Atacama, Yojwis, Weenhayek, Kolla,
Diaguita, Wichí, Chorote, Chané, Chulupí, Guaraní, Toba, Tapiete,
Comechingón, Chicha, Charrúa, Guaycuru, Huarpe, Mapuche, Mpqoit, Mby’a
Guaraní, Ocloya, Omaguaca, Avipón, Yamanas, Yaganes, Quechua, Pilagá,
Q’om, Querandí, Rankulche, Selk’nam, Tonokoté, Tilián, Tilcara, Vilela,
Sanavirón, Nivaclé, Tehuelche, among others.