Life comes from the earth and returns to it

Abstract

This article reflects part of the results of qualitative research in the shelter of Guachucal Nariño in Colombia in the 1980s and part of the 1990s, which analyses the process of land recovery from the community organization, under a historical hermeneutic methodology, answering the question How was the process of land recovery from the community organization in the indigenous lobby of Guachucal Nariño between 1980-1994? where the problem of land tenure has generated in the history of this country different scenarios, one of these in front of indigenous communities which struggle to defend their rights and one of these the right to land which is mostly concentrated in the hands of landowners, where recovering it frames certain dynamics , one of these strengthening the culture and identity of indigenous peoples.