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It was already taking a few years being employed like volunteer for the rights of the indigenous peoples at organizations as Survival and Friends of the Indians. It was approaching the year 1992 and the groups indigenous to America were preparing numerous protests against the celebration of what they were considering the beginning of the aggression of the white man against his peoples. For my surprise there was no text that it was documenting, if he wants of superficial form, the historical processes suffered by the peoples indigenous of America for 500 years of white aggression. The people as much knew something about the massacres of Indians perpetrated during the first years of the Spanish conquest, the committed ones by the North Americans during his Conquest of the West, and someone of recently happened in Brazil that they had managed to attract attention on the international press.
Rest of age an empty space in the history of America.
To document the white aggression to the indigenous villages throughout five hundred years in North America, of the Center and of the South is a task as to occupy a generation of historians. Using the genre so beautifully used by Eduardo Galeano in his monumental work on the history of America "Memory of the Fire", I decided for choosing a series of scenes that could exemplify processes of aggression that were generalized, including simultaneously from the north end (Greenland and the Aleutian Islands) to the south end (Tierra del Fuego).
Of this form Abya-Yala it is composed by more than 600 scenes arranged chronologically that include all the countries of the continent. Someone the description of the reality is heartbreaking to them, in others in the middle of the tragedy there is a poetical touch that opens of some form, a door to the hope. Between the pain and the tenderness, between the deseperación and the hope are opening before the reader a series of keys to themselves at first unsuspected.
The book demonstrates clearly the existence of a continuity temporary space, in that the citizens of all the countries that came to America establish the first globalization: that of the oppression and the domination, of which his progeny who found the modern republics is only continuators.
It is an essential book to know the history of America, necessarily to understand the supposed delay of populations who have been deprived of everything and relegated to the lowest layers of the society.
Ceinos, Pedro. - Abya - yala, scenes of an Indian history of America. Kapok tree Editions. Madrid. 1992. 527 pags.
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