ABSTRACT
Violence from a decolonial perspective would indeed point in the direction, one that makes the indigenous subject unsettled in daily life, to use the terms of Saskia Sassen. She argues that powerless, "invisible" individuals living on the fringes of society are seen by governments as worthless subjects, "without value," localized and perhaps immobile people even if mapped, embodied, and performed. In this logic, indigenous subjectivities are not only subject to violence, but also deprived of basic human rights, as are all discardable beings. Numerous indigenous accounts of the nature articulate political and cultural critiques of the never-ending junctures of racism, violence, and overall abjection in which the communities have been submerged. In the Latin American context, it is impossible to separate indigenous decolonial maneuvers from both the violence and the violation of human rights suffered by the populations in most countries with sizable native communities.
