GIS and the A'i of Colombia: Reserves, Resguardos and the Future

Anthony Stocks, Manuela Ruiz Reyes and Carlos Andrés Rios-Franco
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Anthony Stocks: Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho, USA
Manuela Ruiz Reyes: Wildlife Conservation Society, Cali, Colombia
Carlos Andrés Rios-Franco: Wildlife Conservation Society, Cali, Colombia

International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research (IJAGR), 2016, vol. 7, issue 3, 71-92

Abstract: This paper presents the work of the WCS with the A'i Indigenous people in Colombia as part of a USAID-funded project between 2009 and 2011. The project had several dimensions that make it unusual. Unlike conventional “counter-mapping” attempts to represent Indigenous land claims as a counter to government representations, the project sought to create maps and analyses that represent prior land assignments to the A'i by the Colombian government itself. These land assignments were not supported by geo-referenced maps and, in the case of Indigenous “reserves” the original boundary markers were only known to the oldest of the A'i people. Analysis of forest cover in lands controlled by the A'i reveal that they are highly protective of forests; indeed their collective identity is strongly related to forest cover. The process described also illustrates the difficult position many Indigenous Amazonians face in an era of drug wars, uncontrolled colonization, and in the case of Colombia, the lack of follow-up to the political and social measures envisioned in the 1991 Constitution.

Date: 2016
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