Captured in 1557, Galvarino returned to battle after having both hands hacked off—wrist knives strapped in place, he led the charge anyway. His defiance became the spark of Mapuche resistance.

In 1978, the government converted the Mapuche’s collective land titles into individual deeds, allowing their territory to be sold in parcels and fragmented.

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The Roleando Figueroa government carried out this morning a brutal police operation of eviction to the Mapuche communities who were peacefully claiming the legal persons. There are 22 people arrested, ...

Abstract This article examines the emergence of a new form of shamanism among the Mapuche of Chile during their first decades under the dominion of the Chilean state. Specifically, it links the ...

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