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National Indigenous Organization of Colombia
The National Indigenous Organization of Colombia is an organization representing the indigenous peoples of Colombia, who comprise some 800,000 people or approximately 2% of the population. The organization was founded at the first National Indigenous Congress in 1982.
Spanish colonization involved the formalization of the structures under the name of cabildos, with both pre-conquest and post-conquest features becoming local traditions. In the Andean highlands, were many indigenous people lived essentially as peasants, leftist as well as state organizations took an interest in incorporating indigenous peoples into peasant-sector organizations in the early and mid 20th century. One such organization was the ...
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