This article addresses the scope and limitations of the recognition obtained by the Afro-descendant Chilean Tribal People in the constituent process initiated after the Chilean social revolt of 2019 and, particularly, in the deliberations of the Constitutional Convention that met between 2021 and 2022. In addition to analyzing the presentation and voting of norms related to the Afro-descendant Tribal People, we focus on the speeches of members of the Constitutional Convention regarding those norms. Through a critical discourse analysis, we identify three discursive axes that have framed the support or rejection of initiatives regarding the recognition of Afro-descendants related to the meaning of the legal category “tribal people”, to the question of preexistence, and to Afro-descendants’ “foreignization.” The article concludes with a discussion of the positions adopted by different sectors of the convention, identifying some imaginaries that entailed limits for the inclusion of the Afro-Chilean people in the constitutional proposal.