Los indígenas de la Guajira en la independencia de las provincias caribeñas de la Nueva Granada: una aproximación.

The involvement of the native Guajiros during the independence was the result of motley factors, determined by the specific type of relationship held by each indigenous group with the Creole society, the authorities and the sectors which favored the independence or those which supported the reinstatement of a monarchic order, as well as the degree of subjection or autonomy they maintained facing colonial rule within the context of its collapse and the existing needs of the communities. We focused on the indigenous groups of the southern peninsula of the Guajira, known also as Guajira Abajo, for two reasons: first, because this area presents the most marked mestization between Indigenous people and Creoles, and second, because the sources insufficiently depict the activities of the natives inhabiting the extreme North of the peninsula, the Guajira Arriba. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]