Memorial of a Claim in the Southwest of Antioquia: Lands of the San Juan River (Titiribi, 1852)

the following transcription was part of the documentary collection consulted in an investigation that studied the historical process of formation of the Chami indigenous reservation in southwestern Antioquia during the 19th century, to understand the definitive establishment and legalization of the indigenous territory. Thus, this memorial is inserted in a much broader hermeneutical process, focused particularly on the indigenous population in the southwestern territory, especially between the current municipalities of Andes and Jardin; and in general, on the expansion of the border in Antioquia and the formation of the State of New Granada. The review of this source seeks to highlight the plurality of voices since in traditional historiography of Antioquia the requests written in this discourse have been reduced to a single voice. It could be said that once again the testimonies and questions that corresponded to an entire community were disregarded and the history behind the institutions, efforts, and resistances that the indigenous people who inhabited the Southwest as well as the other settlers who remained outside the nineteenth-century public corporations was ignored.