{"id":79,"date":"2018-04-19T03:18:08","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T03:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/huarpes-y-agua\/?page_id=79"},"modified":"2018-04-29T14:37:13","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T18:37:13","slug":"argentine-context","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/huarpes-y-agua\/argentine-context\/","title":{"rendered":"History of the Huarpes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Huarpe Community are native to what is now Mendoza Capital, where the irrigation\u00a0system they constructed, is still utilized. European invaders forced the community to Lavalle in what is known as <em>La\u00a0Conquista del\u00a0Desierto<\/em>.\u00a0 Lavalle is\u00a0an hours drive north and many community members continue living there today.<\/p>\n<p>Those who invaded what became Argentina committed atrocities against the indigenous\u00a0communities,\u00a0<em>pueblos originarios<\/em>, including, but not limited, to rape, murder, and enslavement. Invaders also forced Catholicism, for example, renaming traditional celebrations of communities with names of saints; stifled language and culture by controlling education and practices; and discriminated and oppressed the community rights as citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina has continuously attempted to portray itself as a white, Europeanized, nation. The most recent example comes from their\u00a0current president, Mauricio Macri when speaking about the Mercosur-EU trade agreement (an agreement between Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uraguay, and the European Union).\u00a0 He states that the trade agreement is\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201ca natural association because, in South America, we are all descendants from Europe\u201d in January of 2018 at the\u00a0World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are <strong>1 million<\/strong> indigenous people in Argentina and <strong>45 million<\/strong> in South America.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Huarpe Community are native to what is now Mendoza Capital, where the irrigation\u00a0system they constructed, is still utilized. European invaders forced the community to Lavalle in what is known as La\u00a0Conquista del\u00a0Desierto.\u00a0 Lavalle is\u00a0an hours drive north and many community members continue living there today. Those who invaded what became Argentina committed atrocities against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2601,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-79","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/huarpes-y-agua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/huarpes-y-agua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/huarpes-y-agua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/huarpes-y-agua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2601"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/huarpes-y-agua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/huarpes-y-agua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/huarpes-y-agua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}