INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES IN COLOMBIA. FOR AN UNDERSTANDING IN CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY. CASE: 1991 CONSTITUTION

Abstract

In the present study on the understanding of indigenous communities in the constitutional history of Colombia, in the light of the 1991 Constitution and its purpose is to show the progress and weaknesses of what the recognition of indigenous communities as subject of law has meant. Methodologically, it is a descriptive, documentary research, based on the sources of the conceptual field. This research also presents the effort to build a decolonial gaze to show the models that seek a subordination of indigenous cultures. For which it is concluded that autonomous development and anthropological pluralism is a conquest that must be historically accompanied to empower said indigenous communities.