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title: "TRIBUTE TO MANUEL QUINTÍN LAME"
summary: "TRIBUTE TO MANUEL QUINTÍN LAME. Página institucional de Amaranto Museo Virtual de Derecho Constitucional en la Universidad Externado de Colombia. Photo credits: Cortesía Casas Riegner y Sucesión Antonio Caro Click on the image to enlarge This is the signature of Quintín Lame—a Nasa indigenous leader, writer, conservative during the Thousand Days' War, and founder of Latin America's first indigenous guerrilla movement."
description: "Photo credits: Cortesía Casas Riegner y Sucesión Antonio Caro Click on the image to enlarge This is the signature of Quintín Lame—a Nasa indigenous leader, writer, conservative during the Thousand Days' War, and founder of Latin America's first indigenous guerrilla movement."
url: "https://www.uexternado.edu.co/en/amaranto-museo-virtual/5-poderes/homenaje-a-manuel-quintin-lame/"
type: "page"
language: "en-US"
site: "Universidad Externado de Colombia"
section: "Amaranto Museo Virtual de Derecho Constitucional"
updated: "2026-06-12T09:53:19-05:00"
---

Publicado: 10 of November of 2021

# TRIBUTE TO MANUEL QUINTÍN LAME

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[Gallery 5. Powers](https://www.uexternado.edu.co/en/amaranto-museo-virtual/5-poderes/)

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](https://www.uexternado.edu.co/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Firma-de-Quintin-Lame-Antonio-Caro-cortesia-Casas-Riegner.jpg)

**Photo credits: Cortesía Casas Riegner y Sucesión Antonio Caro**  
Click on the image to enlarge

#### Antonio Caro

1992  
ink on paper  
70 x 50 cm

This is the signature of Quintín Lame—a Nasa indigenous leader, writer, conservative during the Thousand Days' War, and founder of Latin America's first indigenous guerrilla movement. His signature resembles a pictograph that symbolises the struggle for the recovery of his community’s land. Antonio Caro appropriates Quintín’s signature, thereby reclaiming his thought and advocacy for the protection of indigenous peoples—an effort echoed by Constitutional Court rulings T-795 of 2013 and T-475 of 2014, which recognise indigenous peoples and their education as entitled to special protection. "

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#### See

[About the Artist](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y_4DMkgWnE)

[About Quintín Lame](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Julieta-Lemaitre/publication/314281497_Viva_nuestro_derecho_Quintin_Lame_y_el_legalismo_popular/links/58bf29524585151c70304d22/Viva-nuestro-derecho-Quintin-Lame-y-el-legalismo-popular.pdf)

[Sentencia T-795 de 2013 Comunidades Indígenas](https://www.corteconstitucional.gov.co/relatoria/2013/t-795-13.htm)

[Sentencia T-475 de 2014 Educación Indígena](https://www.corteconstitucional.gov.co/relatoria/2014/T-475-14.htm)

[Return to room 5. Powers](https://www.uexternado.edu.co/en/amaranto-museo-virtual/5-poderes/)

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