Argentina seems to be a country run by immigrants. It’s not a bad thing, but the indigenous people have been bullied and had their rights stripped of them for decades. Even on the census, the native people still feel the rhetoric and hatred towards them have prevented many to coming out on the national census.
Argentina has 35 known indigenous groups, or as commonly referred to, Amerindians. In more than 100 years, the government of Argentina did it’s first survey to classify population based on ethnicity. It showed that around 600,000 citizens, 1.49% of the population, declared to be Amerindian or first-generation descendants of Amerindians. In the 2010 census, that number jumped to about 955,000, an astonishing 2.38% of the population. It is found that a majority of Argentines actually do have at least one indigenous ancestor, and 11% had an indigenous ancestor on both sides of the family. How the indigenous lost their place in Argentina is a much more complex subject.
It all started in the colonial era of Argentina when natives were outnumbered by the black majority that were coming from the slave trade.
Native Peoples
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