Abstract

VALDIVIA DOUNCE, Teresa. Reconocimiento de derechos indígenas: ¿Fase superior de la política indigenista del siglo XX?. Nueva antropol [online]. 2013, vol.26, n.78, pp.9-41. ISSN 0185-0636.

To date the idea of integrating indigenous peoples into the nation has been maintained as a principle within official Mexican pro-indigenous policy. This policy has pursued several strategies, designed in accordance with the interests of the distinct administrations that have held national power for each six year term. These strategies have come to be known as development policies in regard to indigenous people and, although each one has arisen at different times, it can be said that all of them have coexisted up to the present within the same category, under the domain of "new six-year-administration policy." This article reviews five strategies in order to offer an explanation of the last phase of indigenous policy from the twentieth century. It analyzes the period spanning 1951 to 2001 within the context of indigenous movements and their demands, as well as other influences and factors that had an impact on the changes.

Keywords : Indigenism; indigenous rights; indigenous policy reform.