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El 70º aniversario de la Convención para la Prevención y la Sanción del delito de Genocidio (CONUG), votada unánimemente en la Asamblea General de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU) el 9 de diciembre de 1948, inspiró la producción de este Dossier donde una serie de trabajos abordan diversos aspectos en torno al concepto de genocidio, su aplicabilidad al proceso de sometimiento de la población originaria en Argentina a fines del siglo XIX y sus consecuencias de largo plazo en las centurias siguientes.

The Intelligence Boureau of the Police of the Buenos Aires Province (DIPPBA) was created in 1956 and dissolved in 1998. The DIPPBA guided its actions through the articulation of a logic of national order, aimed at sustaining the proscription of Peronism, and another of international order, in relation to the National Security Doctrine and the creation of an internal enemy in the framework of the Cold War. In this article we analyze the documentary collection of the DIPPBA to point out this source’s wealth for understanding the policies of repression of the indigenous movement in the second half of the 20th century. In particular, we focus on the records produced by the monitoring and intelligence actions regarding the celebrations and counter-celebrations motivated by the V Centennial of the Conquest of America, in 1992. These are files that gather information about different intelligence actions deployed in the province of Buenos Aires to spy, especially, those who showed a critical position in relation to the arrival of Columbus in America, but also, surprisingly or not, those who reproduced the celebratory tone of the anniversary. Indeed, the DIPPBA attributed to the activities and groups that were observed the gestation of opposite or revolutionary fronts with international support and linked to terrorism. We also observe the discomfort generated by indigenous organizations and claims insofar as they do not respond to the collective stereotypes to which they are usually reduced.

This article retrieves and offers a critical reading of the file of the "Sumario levantado con motivo de la sublevación i fuga de los indios pampas que trabajaban en el establecimiento del Señor General Don Rudecindo [Roca]", dated June 24th, 1888, which was signed by José Mujica, judge of peace of Santa Ana (Misiones), and is catalogued in the General Archives of the Governorate of Posadas. The so-called “Pampas’ uprising”, or “Pampas’ malón", was an exceptional event in the context of the subjugation of Pampa and North-Patagonia peoples, the practice of dismembering and sharing out defeated groups by the state for the benefit of private owners, and the different possibilities of resistance to it. Several circumstances converged in this case so that the collective agency managed to overturn the constraints of the usually enormous disparity of physical, material and symbolic resources.

The theme of this research is the process of building of the collective that becomes the object of Argentina Indian policy between 1880 and 1970, through an analysis of inscription of subjectivities and truth regimes put forward in national parliamentary debates the same period. The dissertation aims to explain how the subject of Argentina Indian policy is defined in those years; through which processes did it become the subject of government action; which attributes are allocated to this subject; and what assumptions about their nature are shown in those strategies directed to act upon them. This thesis, then, starts from a series questions aimed at establishing the genealogy of national indigenous policy, taking into account the durability of certain representations beyond the conditions that gave rise to them. My thesis establishes a relationship between the nation-state territory frame -as the result of specific historical processes that culminate near 1880- and the founding of the first Indian policy of state-national character that is defined by reference to a collective subject, built as the pole of a mentoring relationship or "incomplete citizenship", marked by assigning one the subject a high share of passivity. The chapter structure of the thesis reflects the historical succession of ideological projects of exclusion/inclusion of indigenous people in the body of the nation: physical discipline measures (Chapter 1), civilization as territorialization (Chapter 2), incorporation into the labor market (chapter 3), assimilation (Chapter 4), integration (Chapter 5), protection (Chapter 6) and acculturation for development (Chapter 7).