ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the different uses of the past, which were evident in statements of agents belonging to the ruling party, opposing parties, and the general public. It also focuses on the contributions of Shore, who considers the government policies as 'tools for intervention and social action that regulate and change the society'. The chapter analyzes the way in which the past is evoked due to a possible change of sense in the provincial history. It concentrates on the disputes to define the past, and how this process helps to order the positions in the present, which seek to settle the differences under the idea of 'San Luis unity'. The chapter visualizes the indigenous presence and a change in the way the state acted toward 'the native communities of the province'. It also visualizes generated disputes for the meaning of those actions in relation to the 'history and identity of the province'.
