Country: Argentina
Group: Toba
Date Finalized: 3/29/2020
Team: Maya Shrikant (lead), Vianney Mancilla, Arisha Khan
This group has and continues to experience lethal violence and instances of genocide. In the 1880’s, during the Argentine government’s political “conquest of the desert” many indigenous groups, including the Toba, were targeted and displaced from their lands. In 1924, under the instruction of president Marcelo T. de Alvear, over 500 Toba were killed on the indigenous lands of Napalpi for protesting governmental control over native land (Delrio, 2010). The Toba people are continuously involved with land disputes with the government (Minority Rights, n.d.). Data quality for the Toba is rated a 1/3 because there was little to no information found about the genocide event aside from the source included.
Sources:
- Delrio, Walter; Lenton, Diana; Musante, Marcelo; and Nagy, Marino (2010) “Discussing Indigenous Genocide in Argentina: Past, Present, and Consequences of Argentinean State Policies toward Native Peoples,” Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal: Vol. 5: Iss. 2: Article 3. Available at: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/gsp/vol5/iss2/3
- Minority Rights. (n.d.). Toba, Retrieved from https://minorityrights.org/minorities/toba/
- Trinchero, H. H. (2006). The genocide of indigenous peoples in the formation of the Argentine Nation-State. Journal of Genocide Research, 8(2), 121-135.