Indigenous people in Argentina demanding rights

The Indigenous people in Argentina, many of whom live in the northwest region of the country, have been treated as second-class citizens by their country for centuries. Many live in poverty and have the least access to education among the national population. Among the injustices these groups have faced is the increasing incursion into their traditional territories by companies that mine lithium and other valuable resources. Tracy Devine Guzmán , an associate professor who teaches Latin American Studies and Global Indigenous Studies for the University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences , spent a month last summer researching the historical and current circumstances of Indigenous communities in northern Argentina for her book on transcontinental indigeneity. Her work in progress has been funded, in part, by a Provost's Research Award. Devine Guzmán presented her findings at the University's Institute for the Advanced Studies of the Americas (UMIA) on Oct. 30 during a session titled "Arriba las wiphalas, abajo la reforma” (Up with the wiphalas, down with the reform)-a phrase currently employed by Kolla communities in Jujuy to protest recent changes to the provincial constitution.