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Epilog

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 November 2012

Lawrence A. Clayton
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University of Alabama
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“All Indian peoples have the right to self-determination. . .. Indian peoples have inalienable rights over their traditional lands and resources. All lands and resources which have been usurped, or taken away without the free and knowledgeable consent of Indian peoples, shall be restored to them. . . . All . . . Indian people’s languages shall be respected by nation-states in all dealings between them on the basis of equality and non-discrimination.”

Bartolomé de las Casas is alive and well across the Iberian Atlantic world today. And, as long as man concerns himself with issues of human rights, morality, truth, faith, religion, and the nature of humankind, he will live through the ages. He is in fact remembered not only throughout the world he traveled, but also throughout the Latin American world which he reached by reputation. In Peru there is the renowned Centro de Estudios Regionales Andinos, “Bartolomé de las Casas,” founded in 1974, and devoted to “research to understand, value, and reveal the complex Andean universe. Its activities are rooted in the principle of self-determination for all people of the Andes . . . permitting each person to realize his own destiny.” That is a perfect statement of one of Las Casas’s principles, easily transferred from his times to modern times, and, of course, underscoring the universality of his life’s work.

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Bartolomé de las Casas
A Biography
, pp. 468 - 474
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2012

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Keen, BenjaminThe Legacy of Bartolomé de las Casas,”Essays in the Intellectual History of Colonial Latin AmericaBoulder, ColoradoWestview Press 1998Google Scholar
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  • Epilog
  • Lawrence A. Clayton, University of Alabama
  • Book: Bartolomé de las Casas
  • Online publication: 05 November 2012
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139047401.017
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  • Epilog
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  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139047401.017
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  • Epilog
  • Lawrence A. Clayton, University of Alabama
  • Book: Bartolomé de las Casas
  • Online publication: 05 November 2012
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139047401.017
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