To have land is one thing, but to have complete control over it, is another. For centuries the human race has based one’s status by how many possessions owned. For the Inca, the amount of squares on traditional clothing symbolized how much power and land those of royalty had. Yet colonization soon changed one’s privilege of being able to obtain or claim land as theirs personally. Colonizers traveled to built empires and new rulings and with that, they began to claim land, daily with military force. Causing many natives to involuntarily give their land. Land occupied by natives was claimed by those foreign to the land, which has been seen through imperial history.
Empires have been built on the actions of taking land from others and claiming ownership. When it comes to the indigenous people of Peru, they too have suffered the stealing of their land. Following decades of colonization, indigenous people suffered mistreatment by the Peruvian government. All indigenous land was taken away, resulting in the creation of poverty in Peru. If indigenous, you were of the lower Peruvian class and not by choice, but by the government’s various attempts to keep you at a lower level. Whether it be taxes implemented on necessary items, the …, making it harder for lower levels citizens to purchase and better their living, or it be
The Agraian Reform was the government’s way of continuing the oppression that was opposed on the indigenous Peruvians. By 1960s the indigenous rose in protest against the mistreatment of the government. If indigenous in Peru, you suffered having extremely small land, and were overall treated less of a human. The rise of the protest called for a land invasion by the indigenous to claim their native land. The government responded with a redundant solution known as “Agraian Reform”. The gov
ernment “gave” the people what they wanted by granting what the indigenous wanted at the start of their protest, which completely ownership of their native land. Yet that is far from what was given, the system what set to not directly give land but to make sure that the government owned the land, and not the people. Under this law the indigenous would have to “rent” the land from the government, would eventually lead into them using partial profits made by the agriculture on the land to pay for the land.
It was set as a system of control, which was seen in the South after the emancipation of Black Slaves within the states that fought in the civil war. The system was known as “sharecropping” and was the exact same thing as the Agraian Reform.
Within a 100 years apart from the starting of sharecrops to reduce the chance of economic independence, stability and autonomy for blacks, the Peruvian government did the same. Although I discussed something of the past in this blog, I did, so one can realize the lack of difference the human race has in systems of control and oppression. Even today people of color fail to have the so-called “system” setup for them too. The “system” is a reference to the pathway of success in America or many other develop countries. All have profited and grown from the labor of people of color. So the next time you hear someone state that immigrants shall no longer be allowed in America legally or illegally, ask them how America “became” America.
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