ABSTRACT
The last three decades of the past century have seen a remarkable surge of activism by and on behalf of indigenous peoples in Latin America. States, in turn, have responded by formally abandoning the integrationist and assimilationist policies of indigenismo and have reformed their constitutions to recognize the pluriethnic and multicultural composition of their populations.2 The region furthermore stands out for the fact that among the 17 countries that ratified ILO Convention 169 (1989) 13 are Latin American.3 The constitutional reforms and the ratification of ILO Convention 169, one might surmise, provide a legal framework for the emergence of autonomy regimes for indigenous peoples.
