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A Visit to the Ranquel Indians

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A visit to the ranquel indians(Una excursion a los indios ranqueles)is the most famous novel of the argentine "dandy" writer Lucio Mansilla.
Nephew of the ex dictator Rosas, Mansilla grew up as any other nobleman at his age. He used to be haughty, scorn the culture of the aboriginal as "barbarism" and" uncouth".
But his opinion changed completely after visiting the ranquel indians during a mission send by the federal government.His original motive was oblige the indians to concede the territory for the construcion of railroad, but while he lived along side the indians, he realized that the problems the indians have were mostly because of their povertry, and they are neither uncouth, imbecil and bellicose as the government described.
The indians were really brave, smart and loyal to the friendship.
Mansilla felt that himself was also converted to a inseparable part of the indian community. At the same time, he also know clearly that his mission was to destroy the indian's hacienda.
The today he complete his mission must also be the final of the peaceful life of these ingenuous poor people.
It was really a painful option for Mr Mansilla...

Just to put the prior review in context, this is a very worthwhile work of nonfiction -- specifically, socio-econo-politico-anthropological reportage. Apparently the reviewer meant "book" rather than "novel"....