" Inacayal watch the child closely. Go all day drunk and lost ... like a ghost . " These fu eron orders gave him Francisco "Perito" Moreno (director of the Museum of Natural Sciences La Plata ) to one of his assistants in 1888. Inacayal was one of the Patagonian Indians captured in the Conquest of the Desert, who had been sent to live in the basement of the Museum of La Plata, and Moreno's words seemed to be predicting the future ...
Modesto Inacayal born in 1833 within the tribe tehuelche of "Gününa Kene" who live on nineteenth century northern province of Chubut , on the banks of Limay River. He was a chieftain of the second order, subject to Sayhueque (the " Lord of the Land of Apples ). He had two wives and was the m 'm about 900 men. Ex plorer Chilean Guillermo Cox describes it this way: "I liked the Inacayal time, the gesture is frank and open, intelligent face sa Be some Castilian, but rather chubby body provided. " Could not write but could speak a little English and always received peacefully explorers who reached the area, who entertained with apples and gave them their best animals for dinner. 
In 1879 he met and helped a young Perito Moreno, who was in the midst of an expedition to the Lake Nahuel the Huapi. The scout was surprised by the friendliness of the ad Aboriginal and l white man, and told in their chronic " the chief flying the national flag in front of his tent and how Ultrac his firstborn, and other Aboriginal , carried the flag ar tina on their spears. "
for those already years had begun " Conquest of the Desert", and by 1881 the general Julio A. Rock em struck a military campaign against the natives south of Black River. Inacayal resists with other ca IBC ues, but he was preparing to negotiate a truce with the Argentines, s tolderías us are attacked and taken prisoner on October 18, 1884 with his family and others of their trib or, in Junín de los Andes . The military took their horses and distributed eron their children among the families of the generals, for use as sirvientes. Es llevado junto a otros dos caciques (Foyel y Sayhueke) hasta una base militar en la isla Martín García en donde permaneció un año y medio talando árboles y picando adoquines, obligado a vestir la ropa que descartaban los soldados y a comer las sobras de la milicia. Siguió resistiéndose a ser prisionero del hombre blanco, y eso queda registrado en sus palabras: “ Yo soy un jefe, hijo de esta patria. Los blancos mataron a mis hermanos, robaron mis caballos, me quitaron la tierra que me vio nacer. Me tomaron prisionero ”.
Sayhueque y Foyel
were released and allowed to return to their land for as Argentines claimed. Inacayal se ne go to give up their identity, so he remained in captivity. The Perito Moreno the "rescued" in October 1886 by way of thanks for the help they had given him the chief during his expedition to Patagonia, and then Inacayal was moved with others to borígenes ( including were his wife and a daughter) to Museum of Natural Sciences of La Plata, which remained for the rest of his days .
In total there were 12 Aborigines living in the forest museum, as if part of the living collection of o. Moren During the day they were allowed to navigate the corridors of forest platense building, which was still under construction. But at night were locked with a padlock on a abitación h subsoil. They need to eat a pot of soup for all, and not er pod had to leave their needs in a corner. Women were in charge of the li mpieza museum, washing clothes of staff and the production of machines for sale, men had tasks such as digging wells, r clean the sewage and 
work on the construction of the building that just ended in 1889. As part of the "collection" of the museum, naked aborigines were examined by scientists who attended see s. They were also photographed or were forced to stay still for hours in front of a painter of portraits.
On September 21, 1887 dies at age 30 Ma rgarita , The daughter of Chief Foyel. A few weeks later (2 October) Inacayal woman dies , and also dies eight days Tafa, most of gr upo. This spate of deaths brought bad name Perito Moreno. The Daily Echo Córdoba accused him of "Dark Knight " while L'Italiano de Buenos Aires worker questioned not respect municipal regulations for the treatment of the dead . In 2006, new research is conducted, after which Fernando Pepe believes that may have been poisoned, after analyzing the death masks that keeps the museum: " are impressive, have features of pain and suffering, clenched teeth."
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Inacayal Ten Kate described in the Journal of Museum (published in 1904): " was reserved, suspicious, proud and unforgiving. Communication only when drunk. He slept most of the day, discussed easily, very apathetic and without any concern for him . " After the deaths of Aboriginal Inacayal was sad and almost no dor mine. He spent hours looking at the remains of his wife who had been placed on display in a showcase of the museum, along with other skeletons. By the spring of 1888, the chief could tehuelche spend hours and hours looking at nothing. Walking and ncorvado, shuffling, also talking to himself, and he dropped the pants so thin he was. died September 24, 1888, for reasons not entirely clear, however, were prepared following theories about his death:
- He committed suicide by
the torment that caused him being away from their land and imprisoned in the museum where I had to see exposed in the windows of remains of their loved ones.
- They pushed down the stairs to the museum when he stripped in public in one of their rituals. This is based anthropologist Ten Kate, who noted that the skeleton had the bones of the nose broken by a fall or blow , and it was missing several teeth.
- Finally the above theory, which says that Inacayal knowing he was dying, made a ritual after which vanished. So let it settled the Italian naturalist Onelli Clemente, secretary of Moreno: "I hardly moved from his old chair. And one day when the setting sun tinted purple propyleum of that majestic building crimp ent re the dark eucalyptus ... supported by two Indians, appeared Inacayal up there on the monumental staircase, tore off his clothes, the invader of his country, made a gesture to the sun, another marathon to the south, spoke pal open unknown and in the twilight, the shadow of that old Lord burdened land quickly faded as the evocation of a world . "
After years of complaints from Aboriginal groups since the early 1980, the remains of Chief Modesto Inacayal were returned to the city of Tecka , Chubut, on April 19, 1994 il (Day of the American Indian). There he built a mausoleum with the entrance facing what were their mountains. He had to wait over 100 years to return to their land and have a funeral as tradition tehuelche, where the dead are buried as if they were in the womb, surrounded by weapons, food and various objects that may need to be reborn elsewhere. 
Inacayal 's case that museums served to continue returning the remains of Aboriginal communities, as stated in the Law No. 25,517 (enacted in 2001): "I l Aboriginal remains , whatever their ethnicity, which are part of museums and / or public or private collections, will be made available to indigenous and / or communities of belonging that claim. "
But the story is not over. In July 2006 , some anthropology students who were examining the remains of Aboriginal museum to identify and return to their lands, are part of the scalp, brain, ear and heart dissection presumably ado Inacayal . These remains were also made available to be returned to Chubut, where the great chief hopes rest in peace after his final at the Museo de La Plata. And do not forget to read about the strange events at the museum that occurred some time later. Already got that story
Photos:
1. Sayhueque (left) and Inacayal (right)
2. Perito Moreno bust in the Museo de La Plata.
3. General Roca, General Villegas, Colonel Teodoro Garcia and Colonel Vintter during the Conquest of the Desert (1879)
4. Museum of Natural Sciences of La Plata, where they remained prisoners the Indians.
5. Some Aboriginal women living in the Museum. From left to right: Inacayal Wife, wife of Foyel Ariancu wife, Margarita, TAFA.
6. Children were also living in the building of the forest. From left to right: Nina Tehuelche Inacayal daughter, Sakak, Inacayal daughter, daughter Inacayal, Inacayal daughter, daughter Sayhueque, Trakel.
7. Photo Inacayal during his days at the Museo de La Plata.
8. Chamber Museum of Anthropology, 1891. There were dozens of skeletons on display of aboriginal "collected" from Indian cemeteries and others who died in the Conquest of the Desert.
9. Inacayal Mausoleum in Tecka. His remains rest there since 1994.
10. Some of the mummies were Aboriginal (or remain) on public display in the museum.
11. Scalp, ear and brain Inacayal encountered by students of anthropology. They were also found the hair of Inacayal (front), his wife (behind) and Margarita (braids).
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"Ciudad de La Plata. Its History, "Professor Richard S. Katz
Memoirs of expropriation. Submission and incorporating indigenous to Patagonia ", Walter Mario Delrio
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