Reflections on Archeological Heritage and Indigenous Peoples: The Case in Chile

This article is an attempt to awaken archeologists to the new demands there are within different groups of society regarding archeological heritage, specially the indigenous peoples involved. It also analyzes the new world context within which heritage policies are found and how archeologists have had to adapt and focus their objectives and methods. A brief comparative analysis is made and the Chilean situation is explained, specially as regards the new conditions that have come about as a result of recent legislation on indigenous topics and the environment and how work has been done with indigenous people from the State’s viewpoint.