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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The plight of Chile's indigenous Mapuche people and their struggle for land rights will come under the spotlight as Pope Francis travels to the country on Monday amid growing tension between the ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Scores of Mapuche faced prosecution during the Frei government on charges like arson, theft, land grabbing, kidnapping, or wounding. In addition, public officials opened three separate proceedings ...

Carolina Soto Campos and her daughter Sofia, from the Mapuche community Lof Dawulko Karulen, near their home, March 3, 2022. Carolina and her family occupy six hectares of land, currently owned by ...

Chile's Mapuche Land Fight Turns Deadly. Over the past five years, reported acts of violence from the Mapuche struggle have escalated 10 times over, prompting a police response that the indigenous ...