La Misión Indígena San Francisco Solano de Tacaaglé en las tierras fiscales de Formosa (1900-1950)

• Main Author: Gabriela Dalla Corte
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Centro Científico y Tecnológico-CONICET, Mendoza & Universidad Nacional de La Pampa 2013-06-01
• Series: Corpus: Archivos Virtuales de la Alteridad Americana
• Subjects: Tacaaglé; Indigenous Mission; Formos; Franciscan Missionaries; fiscal land
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/corpusarchivos/212

The Indigenous Mission was inaugurated in the year 1901, in the zone of the river Pilcomayo of the National Territory of Formosa, precisely to the side of the Paraguayan concession granted to Elisa (Elizabeth Alicia) Lynch. Since then, it was moved, first to Tacaaglé in 1902, where the name of Mission acquired San Francisco Solano, and later, in 1915, to the riacho El Porteño. The Franciscan Missionaries assumed the task of forming "indigenous colonists" tobas and pilagás for the production of sugar. There is analyzed the evolution of the Franciscan Mission and the impact of the arrival of the Ferrocarril Formosa a Embarcación (F.C.F.E.). The used documentation is in the Biblioteca y Archivo Históricos de la Provincia Franciscana de San Miguel, del Museo Conventual de San Carlos Borromeo located in San Lorenzo, Provincia de Santa Fe.