The Wampis, the first autonomous indigenous government in Peru

reflections and lessons for legal criticism

Abstract

This article constitutes a revision of the constitution process of the Wampis autonomous government, an
indigenous community located in the official territory of the Republic of Peru, which since 2015 has been fighting for
the official recognition of its autonomy. Through the revision of its statute of constitution and the historical processes
that motivated its approval, the article seeks to find the basis for its decision by reviewing the categories of emancipatory
legal pluralism and indigenous territorial governance. It is proposed that the constitution of the autonomous government
Wampis proposes interesting tools and challenges to legal criticism, through the questioning and redefinition of the concepts
of the Nation-State and the official legal order, in addition to the need for its monitoring through the processes legal
technical support. Finally, attention is drawn to the need to closely follow the processes of autonomous claim based on the
management of the territory that indigenous peoples have been raising in various countries of the region.