The indigenous council: a scenario that contributes to the cultural significance of the Muisca community of Bogotá

Abstract

Historically, the indigenous peoples have fought for the vindication of their civil rights, through the recognition of their own language, traditions, uses and customs, which have been key to the preservation of their ancestral memory as original peoples of the American continent. This is why the Muisca indigenous people have generated a great cultural and territorial appropriation, which materialized in the constitutional struggle that resulted in the establishment of the Cabildo Indígena, as a political and territorial entity that shelters them as subjects of law and possessors of the land, as well as provides them with a strategy in the preservation of their own knowledge and contributes to the cultural transcendence. Thus, allowing the indigenous people to have complete freedom in the public manifestation of their cultural identity through the exercise of their own government. Consequently, the Political Constitution stipulated a series of regulations that tend to protect those who call themselves Muiscas.