El estatuto jurídico de los indígenas en las constituciones hispanoamericanas del período de la emancipación

Abstract

This work outlines the different policies that the Hispanic American constitutions adopted with regard to the indigenous peoples after the Independency of the metropolis. The constitutional statements include an exclusion policy, that treats the indigenous peoples as foreigners, a paternalistic policy, that maintains the policy that prevailed along the Colonial period, and a policy of strict equality. Nonetheless, the policy towards assimilation was the one most frequently enshrined in these constitutions.