ABSTRACT
Members of various indigenous groups, human rights organizations, observers, journalists, and researchers have asserted that some of the ways in which Latin American indigenous peoples have been dealt with over the past 500 years constitute genocide (De las Casas, 1992; Lewis, 1969, 1974, 1975; Dostal, 1972; Stannard, 1982; Montejo, 1987; Smith, 1987; Chalk and Johnassohn, 1990, pp. 173–180; Churchill, 1997; Maybury Lewis 1997, 2002; Robbins, 2005; Jones, 2006, pp. 70–72; Kiernan, 2007, pp. 72–100). This point was made by Miguel Chase-Sardi with reference to the Ache (Guayaki) of eastern Paraguay at the Symposium on Inter-Ethnic Conflict in South America held in Barbados from January 25 to January 30, 1971.
