Abstract
This paper proposes a study of the indigenous political movement in the Vaupés, considering the 1970s as a starting point and reaching the middle of the 2010s, regarding the process of configuration of the first regional organization, following the titling of the indigenous land and undergoing the changes brought by the political constitution of Colombia in 1991. The analysis focuses on the articulation between the legal and administrative changes in the territory and the changes in gender relations in this process, highlighting how some spaces and practices of regional policy are being constituted and consolidated as masculine, although other signifiers and repertoires, considered masculine in terms of ethnic belonging, are now available for the political exercise of women. Thus, several representations of the feminine ethnicity are made in political forums, while the territory assumes meaning beyond the ancestral origin, as a support of rights and political organization.
Keywords:
indigenous lands; political participation; gender and ethnicity; Vaupés
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