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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ERCILLA, Chile — Chile is taking new steps to end three decades of land disputes with the indigenous Mapuche people that have turned so violent some officials classify the actions as terrorism.

Mapuche means ‘man of the land’. Without our land we are not a people, we are not che,” he said, uncannily evoking Argentine-Cuban revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara, ...

The Mapuche should get their land back, he said. “When my grandfather was born, we had 1,200 acres,” Mr Huenchumilla added. “I have two. ...

The plan addresses a centuries-old conflict, intensified over the last three decades, with significant land demands (486,008 hectares, costing some US$ 4 billion) and a history of violence (60 ...

Three hours south of Concepción in the central coastal area of Chile lie the rolling green hills of Comunidad Miguel Yevilao. It’s one community of many that make up the Mapuche, an Indigenous people ...