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Mapuche religion is the traditional Native American religion of the Mapuche people. It is practiced primarily in south-central Chile and southwest Argentina. The tradition has no formal leadership or
The area of South America where the Mapuche language is spoken. Dark blue areas indicate it as the majority language, light blue as a minority language
Mapuche funerary statues on display at a museum in Beijing
Three machis, each with a kultrun drum, photographed in 1900
A machi standing on their rewe, the timber structure they climb onto while in a trance-state
Mapuche
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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 religion
…Mapuche religion is the traditional Native American religion of the Mapuche people. It is practiced primarily in south-central Chile and southwest Argentina. The tradition has no formal leadership or organizational structure and…
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