Las relaciones interétnicas entre los Warao de la frontera noroccidental del Delta del Orinoco durate la época colonial

Abstract

This paper is a reconstruction and analysis of the interethnic relationships articulated around the Northwestern Warao Orinoco Delta frontier during the colonial times. The first part of the paper shows colonial expansion process over the Northeastern Venezuela and over the Orinoco Delta. The second part exposes frontier areas configuration, through the missionary political action. At the third part, the conquest strategies and the ways of Warao responses along the XVIII century are reconstructed. Finally, the discussion about the political articulation between the Warao and their Paria, Kari’ña and Chaima neighbors, in the context of the colonial frontiers tensions and contradictions, is opened