DOI: https://doi.org/10.31948/rev.criterios.25.1-art-6 This text reflects on the discursive construction of the indigenous in Chronicle of Peru. The lordship of the Incas, by Pedro de Cieza de Leon. According to the wishes that the narrator mobilizes, three types of representation of the indigenous are proposed: the Edenic native, the dangerous native and the despised native. In each of these typologies, we reflect on the interests that involved the Conqueror.