Manuel Quintín Lame Chantre (1880–1967) was a Colombian indigenous rebel from the early 20th century who tried to form an independent indigenous republic.
He was born in
El Borbollón,
Cauca, son of Mariano Lame, of Paez origin, and Dolores Chantre, of mixed indigenous origins. During the war of 1885, his sister Licenia, was raped. His brother Feliciano was killed in the
Thousand Days' War
The Thousand Days' War () was a civil war fought in Colombia from 17 October 1899 to 21 November 1902, at first between the Colombian Liberal Party, Liberal Party and the government led by the National Party (Colombia), National Party, and lat ...
. In 1901, he joined the army of the
Colombian Conservative Party
The Colombian Conservative Party () is a conservative political party in Colombia. The party was formally established in 1849 by Mariano Ospina Rodríguez and José Eusebio Caro.
The Conservative Party along with the Colombian Liberal Party ...
. In 1911, he started the
Indigenous Movement. In 1914, he tried to establish the Republic of Indigenas, formed by
Cauca,
Tolima,
Huila and
Valle
Valle may refer to:
* Valle (surname)
Geography
*"Valle", the cultural and climatic zone of the dry subtropical Interandean Valles of the Andes of Peru, Bolivia, and northwest Argentina
* University of Valle, a public university in Cali, Colomb ...
. Because of this, he was arrested. His movement grew and became the "Guerra Racial". In 1921, after spending three years in jail, he joined the Tolima movement. In 1924, he wrote the book ''El pensamiento del indio que se educó en las selvas colombianas''. He died in 1967 in
Ortega,
Tolima.
Bibliography
* LAME CHANTRE, Manuel Quintín. Los pensamientos del indio que se educó en las selvas colombianas
939
Year 939 ( CMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
* Hugh the Great, count of Paris, rebels against King Louis IV ("d'Outremer") and gains support from William I, duke of Normandy ...
Bogotá, Funcol, s.f.
* LAME, MANUEL QUINTÍN. Las luchas del indio que bajó de la montaña al valle de la "civilización". Selección y notas, Gonzalo Castillo Cárdenas. Bogotá, Rosca de Investigación y Acción Social, 1973.
* TELLO, Piedad
LAME, MANUEL QUINTÍN, in ''Gran Enciclopedia de Colombia del Círculo de Lectores, tomo de biografías''
* TELLO, Piedad L. "Vida y lucha de Manuel Quintín Lame". Tesis de Grado, Departamento de Antropología, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, 1983.
* CASTRILLÓN ARBOLEDA, Diego. El Indio Quintín Lame. Bogotá, Tercer Mundo, 1971.
1880 births
1967 deaths
Indigenous activists of South America
Colombian activists
Colombian military personnel
Colombian rebels
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