In this proposal I start from the idea of "reconstitution" as a concept that can help to understand the political development of indigenous peoples in Latin America. Thinking of themselves as colonized nation-peoples, their constitution as political subjects is experienced as a "reconstitution" of the peoples they once were, in an ideological, organizational and practical operation that is more creative than restorative.
Through the case of the Plurinational Ancestral Government Q''ajobal'ano, I want to study what are the contents that the actors themselves give to this idea of reconstitution, what are the components of this horizon of desire from which they propose their future as indigenous peoples, in the concrete conditions of a country like Guatemala in which the State has hardly opened spaces for the rights of these peoples.
With this example I hope to provide elements to better understand the political action of one of the most active subjects in the whole Latin American continent, as well as one of the privileged subjects of anthropological attention, who for some time have been claiming their own space in the societies of which they are part.
