He came here to express his closeness to the Mapuche, who today count for about 9 percent of the Chilean population, or 1.5 million people, 24 percent of whom live in Araucanía, which is today ...

Mapuche Indians Land Dispute NPR's Martin Kaste reports on the growing political clout of Chile's native Mapuche Indians. Although timber companies hold the title to much of the country's valuable ...

Land, in the Mapuche struggle, is a transcendent concept. It is not simply a plot of terra firma demarcated by a set of boundaries, as it is in the liberal Enlightenment thinking that constitutes ...

It is crucial that Mapuche voices circulate widely, breaking both imposed silences and the image, marketed to tourists, of their land as a conflict-free wilderness. Português Español ...

“We are here to stay … and I will only leave when I’m dead… My wife is buried in Mapuche land and I will be buried too.” The dispute started in 2002, when a Mapuche family was accused of ...

In a scene that has played out repeatedly in the Araucanía, neighbouring Mapuche Indians claim original rights to the land now owned by the Luchsinger family, citing a 100-year-old title in which ...

Domínguez's decision has set a precedent, which may have an impact on other cases of land claims by Mapuche groups. Bariloche Federal Judge María Silvina Domínguez has ruled that State-owned ...

Argentine President Alberto Fernandez on Friday accepted the resignation of the minister for women, genders and diversity after she opposed the eviction of a group of indigenous Mapuche women from ...

Featuring Mapuche Heroine, Chilean Amazon Original Action Film ‘Sayen’ Premieres On Prime Video. ... After her family refuses to sell their property, considered Mapuche sacred land, ...

Argentine President Alberto Fernandez on Friday accepted the resignation of the minister for women, genders and diversity after she opposed the eviction of a group of indigenous Mapuche women from ...