D04 Colón, Montevideo URUGUAY 1726

. . . first came the genocide of the 1800s, and now there is denial of the existence of survivors.      Today, the fifth-grade school social studies books in Uruguay contain a couple of paragraphs on the ‘slaughter’ at Salsipuedes; the sixth-grade unit, on genocide, discusses Armenia, Bosnia and Rwanda, but makes no mention of Indigenous people.

— Stephanie Nolen, “‘We are still here’: The Fight to be Recognized as Indigenous in Uruguay,” 2018

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