Touring the Valentí­ns Sayhueque ´s tolderias: Reminiscences of Francisco Moreno 1870-1880

Abstract

This paper aims to show and analyze border relations between indigenous chroniclers , travelers and agents of the government of Buenos Aires in the period from 1870 to 1880. Special attention to the links between these "worlds" it will be paid from travel Moreno realized that the cacique Valentin Sayhueque awnings and communities in the surrounding regions of Lake Nahuel Huapi. The influence of other chroniclers of time (Cox and Musters ) nor the imprint of central characters in the context ( Zeballos and Roca) is not ruled out. Travelers who toured Patagonia left key testimony to understand the process that occurred between indigenous societies and the Argentine national state in the late nineteenth century. Their analysis through a critical look sets the tone of how native societies were observed and studied from the government of Buenos Aires and foreign countries. The current Patagonia was an attraction (and still is), for many individuals who do not know the place. Nature, landscape, vegetation were unique and very attractive. Their lands were inhabited by subjects who did not have the same life forms than other regions of the moment. They had developed customs, forms of communication, trade and commerce, social relations, festivities. Writers like Francisco Moreno are nodal to delve into the native world from another angle, as it shows the relationship in space frontier and purposes of the government of Buenos Aires at the time of military campaigns. A methodological level has resorted to Etnohistory to address our problem from a different perspective and fueling ongoing investigation