Rosa Chiquichano

Rosa Laudelina Chiquichano (born 1947)[1] is a Tehuelche Argentine lawyer and politician who served as Deputy for the province of Chubut between 2007 and 2011.[2] When assuming the position, she was the first person from original Argentine people to be member of the peoples from Argentina to be a member of the National Congress.[3][4]

Rosa Chiquichano
National Deputy
In office
10 December 2007 – 10 December 2011
ConstituencyChubut
Personal details
Born1947
Yala Laubat, Chubut Province, Argentina
Political partyJusticialist Party
Front for Victory
Alma materNational University of Patagonia San Juan Bosco
OccupationLawyer and politician

Biography

Her great-great-grandfather was a Tehuelce cacique Juan Chiquichano and his great-grandfather, also cacique Adolfo Nahuelquir Chiquichano.[5]

She completed her education in Trelew, and became teacher.[6] She later studied law at the Esquel headquarters of the National University of Patagonia San Juan Bosco, graduating in 1999. Thus she became the first lawyer of Tehuelche origin.

She was alternate councilor in Trelew and served as provincial legislator from 2003[7] until the 2007 legislative elections, she was elected national deputy to occupy second place in the Front for Victory list. She was sworn in on 5 December of that year, wearing a quillango (traditional garment of guanaco leather) and giving a speech in Tehuelche language.[8]

In the Chamber of Deputies of the Nation, she was second vice president of the commission of cooperative, mutual and non-governmental organizations, and member of the commissions of constitutional affairs, vocal culture, human rights and guarantees, population and human development, and natural resources and conservation of the human environment.[9] In the position she was also a deputy to the Latin American Parliament.[10]

References
  1. Una tehuelche como diputada en el Congreso de la Nación (in Spanish)
  2. CHIQUICHANO, ROSA LAUDELINA (in Spanish)
  3. Histórico: una tehuelche juró como diputada nacional (in Spanish)
  4. Los tehuelches tendrán una banca en el Congreso (in Spanish)
  5. Rosa Chiquichano, sus ancestros tehuelches y el origen del quillango (in Spanish)
  6. ROSA CHIQUICHANO HABLA DE SU ABUELO JUAN CHIQUICHANO (in Spanish)
  7. Diputada tehuelche pide que el 12 de octubre sea día de reflexión (in Spanish)
  8. Asumió una diputada de origen Tehuelche (in Spanish)
  9. ROSA LAUDELINA CHIQUICHANO (in Spanish)
  10. ¿Vuelve Rosa Chiquichano? (in Spanish)
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