ABSTRACT
In Argentina, the constitutional recognition of the rights of Indigenous Peoples took place with the 1994 amendment. The process leading to this recognition might be considered parallel to that which took place in other Latin American countries. It came about as a result of both the state’s need to adjust itself to new conditions throughout the world, and the widespread agitation of Indian peoples and their organisations, a mobilisation favoured within the country by the return to the democratic form of government in the mid-1980s (see Iturralde and Guerrero 1997).
