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The Mapuche, also known as Araucanians, are a group of Indigenous inhabitants of south-central Chile and southwestern Argentina, including parts of Patagonia. The collective term refers to a wide-rang
Mapuche women from Tirúa in 2015
Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's picture of the confrontation between the Mapuches (left) and the Incas (right)
Caupolican by Nicanor Plaza
Cornelio Saavedra Rodríguez in meeting with the main lonkos of Araucania in 1869
Mapuche conflict
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The Mapuche conflict is a political and armed conflict that involves indigenous Mapuche communities, located in Araucanía and nearby regions of Chile and Argentina.
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…Mapuche have become subjects, and later nationals and citizens, of those states. Today, many Mapuche and Chilean communities are engaged in the so-called Mapuche conflict over land and Indigenous rights in both Argentina and Chile. Historically, the Spanish colonizers of South America referred to the Mapuche people as…
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Lautaro, a military leader of the Arauco War
Aucán Huilcamán, a Mapuche Indigenist political activist
The construction of the Ralco Hydroelectric Plant involved the relocation of Mapuche communities through land swaps, against the will of some families. Additionally, cemeteries and sacred ancestral sites important to the Mapuche religion were flooded.