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An Expedition to the Ranquel Indians: Excursion a los indios ranqueles (Texas Pan American Series)

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The encounter between Native American peoples and Europeans and their descendants has marked the history of each and every nation within the Americas, both North and South. Lucio Mansilla’s Una excursión a los indios ranqueles, published in Argentina in 1870, is one in all only a few works in American letters that presents a vivid, firsthand account of a noncombative encounter between Native American and European civilizations.

This volume is the first English translation of Mansilla’s classic work. Long noted for its humor, adventurousness, and narrative ingenuity, the book offers penetrating insights into fundamental issues of “civilization and barbarism,” immigration, ethnic and racial diversity, and land ownership and tenancy.

Mansilla by myself among his contemporaries espoused open dialogue as the most productive option to the “Indian problem.” Even if the peace accord he sought to enact with the Ranquels was once summarily disregarded by the Argentine government, which slowly gravitated towards a policy of ethnic cleansing and expropriation of Indian lands, the Expedition does narrate a rehearsal for a reconciliation that after all never took place.

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