Negotiation strategiesand indigenous resistance to colonization in Antioquia’s west between 1880 and 1920

This article analyzes the social, cultural, economic and political actions undertaken by the indigenous communities of the old indigenous reservation of San Carlos de Cañasgordas against the colonization process in western Antioquia between 1880 and 1920. During that time, the final distributions of the collective ownership in the basins of the rivers Sucio and Murrí were made. These strategies allowed indigenous groups to continue being cohesive by their ethnic identity even though their territory was divided by the possessions of settlers