Abstract
In 2003, the Municipality of Villa Pehuenia was established in the Department of Aluminé, Neuquén Province, Argentina, on Mapuche territory without the due process of prior, free, and informed consultation with the Lof Catalán and Lof Puel communities, constituting a legal dispossession. Together with the Mapuche Confederation of Neuquén, the Lof Catalán filed a lawsuit in 2004 challenging the constitutionality of the municipality’s creation, and in 2021, the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation ruled against the Province of Neuquén. This video highlights the characteristics of this process through the voice of werken Juana Jara and the realization of the Workshop on Legal Dispossession, coordinated with the Indigenous Peoples’ Human Rights Observatory. The political, territorial, economic, and socio-environmental damages resulting from the dispossession remain evident, but so does the collective construction of strategies and proposals in the pursuit of reparations.
Produced by Observatorio de Derechos Humanos de Pueblos IndÃgenas (Argentina, 2024)
Citation
Observatorio de Derechos Humanos de Pueblos IndÃgenas (ODHPI). 2024. 'Voices: The Road from Dispossession to Reparation'. Dispossessions in the Americas. https://dia.upenn.edu/en/content/CabrapanM001/
